How to Use sunken in a Sentence

sunken

adjective

• Her eyes were sunken and lifeless.
• So the Camerons have the Cross and the sunken gold as the Pogues escape from their ship.
  — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 11 Aug. 2021
• The next morning, the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, was found in the backseat of the sunken car.
  — Kathy Shiels Tully, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Wood from a sunken Spanish galleon was used for the bar.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• Instead of an ace in the hole, Sale looks like sunken cost.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• Vescovo is the first human to lay eyes on the sunken ship.
  — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2021
• That was my first time pulling a person out of a sunken car in a canal.
  — Kimberly Rapanut, azcentral, 11 July 2018
• The fish hangs under the sunken boulder, one clear eye on me.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The home boasts 12 bathrooms and a sunken tennis court.
  — Ebony Day, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2020
• Starting at the bottom, the open beach club is equipped with a bar, a lounge and a sunken Jacuzzi.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
• Some people have claimed to hear church bells from a sunken church.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 31 Oct. 2020
• Rand and Moiraine reach the Eye of the World, a sunken chamber as dank and wet as the Blight is dark and ugly.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2021
• Tante Malkeh pries open the girl’s mouth, and, her old eyes lighted up in their sunken depths.
  — Abigail Deutsch, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• But the canal is blocked by sunken ships and doesn’t reopen until 1957.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• But the canal was blocked by sunken ships and did not reopen until 1957.
  — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
• Most of the boating scenes were filmed onsite, along with a few dives to get some footage of sunken ships.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2019
• The Arizona is not the only sunken shipwreck that still has oil on board.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 6 Dec. 2019
• Webster said her favorite room in the house is the sunken living room.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Outside, a large pool is flanked on either side by a spa and a sunken fire pit.
  — Mary Grace Metheny, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2020
• To the north of the welcome center, the architects added a sunken courtyard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• Within the light well, a small sunken garden also brings a hint of nature to the space.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• Of those twenty-three thousand ships, this one was closest to the sunken sloop.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• The question of who owns the sunken treasure is also in contention.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 6 Nov. 2023
• More notably, though, is that the sunken place is a metaphor that does not uniquely apply to Dre.
  — refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• At the helm of the new venture is Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who found the sunken wreck of the Titanic.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• The amphitheater has a sunken stage with grassy, ledged seating.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2021
• Cornell said the sunken boat appeared to be an 18- or 20-foot open-cockpit craft.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2021
• Because of the sunken site, the second-floor windows looked out on ground level.
  — Star Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
• Indeed, by the late 1970s, the popularity of the sunken living room had, well, begun to sink.
  — Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024
• Photo : Daniel Petroni A backyard pool and spillover spa are nestled alongside an open-air pavilion with a sunken dining area.
  — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024