How to Use sink in a Sentence

sink

verb

• The rock sank to the bottom of the pool.
• The sun sank behind the hills.
• She sank up to her knees in the snow.
• The torpedo sank the ship.
• My foot sank into the deep mud.
• She sank back into the cozy chair.
• The passengers were rescued from the boat before it sank.
• The temperature sinks quickly after the sun sets.
• His strength is slowly sinking.
• The lake's water level is slowly sinking.
• The sun began to sink, and Banda steered the jeep to the east.
  — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• Then play slowed down, but as the cards lay, South was sunk.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
• At the end of the video, the ship appears to have sunk, with just its bow above water.
  — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• The ship slowly sank over the next three days, according to the DPAA.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
• Then Palmer learned that might have been enough to sink her career.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• The good news is that with the shorter days, overnight cooling will sink temps into the 50s.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• Castro has already sunk his third shot and wins the hole.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• Edwards sank all three foul shots for a five-point swing.
  — Rich Torres, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Jan. 2024
• Which of the new releases will sink and which will swim at the box office?
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• This process, combined with oil drilling, caused parts of the Houston area to sink more than 10 feet over the course of a few decades.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• It’s also sunk deep into the ground as the venue sits right in the middle of the flight path to LAX, which is about three miles to the west.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
• The bottle sank to the bottom of the ocean, Thomas recalls now, something like a metaphor for her loss.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• Four people died when a storm sank a boat in northern Italy.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The car sank about 75 yards offshore, WGME reported, and has been pulled out of the water.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023
• Her sailors tried in vain to keep the Yorktown afloat, but the ship sank on the morning of June 7, killing 141 officers and crew.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• Members of a pod had been ramming and shaking boats in the area for more than three years, and had now sunk four.
  — Sallie Tisdale, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• That leaves only four more hour-long episodes to sink your teeth into.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 14 July 2023
• Last year, a high school freshman managed to sink three hole in ones in a single day.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• Since glaciers disappeared from North America, the loss of ice on top of the continent has been slowly causing the East Coast to sink.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• And then the pandemic arrived and global forces threatened to sink their fragile business.
  — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024