Use drowning in a sentence
Sentences starting with drowning
- Drowning men come to the surface three times they say. [12]
- Drowning is so nice and clean, and writes up so well in a newspaper. [5]
Sentences ending with drowning
- For instance, Nikolaus would save Lisa from drowning. [5]
- Was she dying, was she drowning? [11]
- The canoe had upset and he had come near drowning. [9]
- Long before we reached the ford we thought we would like to swap the guide, even at the, risk of drowning. [4]
- A full fourth part of their force never reached the top of the lofty embankment; the three-fourths reached it and plunged over--to death by drowning. [5]
- He then retreated, leaving his wounded with his military chaplain, and in recrossing the now swollen river lost some of his men by drowning. [5]
- You brought her home when she come so nigh drowning. [6]
- Instantly the toads came out of their holes in the dirt, by tens and twenties and fifties, to escape death by drowning. [4]
More example sentences with the word drowning in them
- Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
- It's like drowning with a life preserver in my reach. [5]
- The last two verses of the song kept drowning his sense of the actual, and he was swayed by the superstition of bygone ancestors: "Whereaway goes my lad--tell me, has he gone alone? [11]
- It had swept up to Vadrome Mountain, and had marched furiously through the forest, carrying down hundreds of trees, drowning the roars of wild animals and the crying and fluttering of birds. [11]
- He therefore clings to this hope, as a drowning man to the last plank. [7]
- Bagration rode up to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning the sound of voices and the shouts of command. [2]
- Hadrian had refused to see it when he learnt that the death by drowning had terribly distorted the lad's features. [10]
- He had clung to it as a drowning man clings to a spar. [11]
- It is impossible to describe that fierce, jubilant song of the saw, which even when we were near was never shrill or shrieking: never drowning our voices, but vibrant and delightful. [11]
- Somehow she seemed to be a part of that abstraction, that intoxication, in which he had just been drowning his accumulated anxieties. [11]
- From time to time she shut her eyes as tightly as she could, for she fancied she could see a crimson glare, and she longed for light in that hour as a drowning man longs for the shore. [10]
- McNeir had his thigh broken by a pike, and was dragged back after the first rush was over; and the mate of the bark was near to drowning, being rescued, indeed, by Graham, the tanner. [9]
- Or it was the same stalwart maiden, or another as good, in a boat which stood on end, pulling through the surf with one oar, and dragging a drowning man (in a bathing suit also) into the boat with her free hand. [4]
- It seemed that the incident of this hour had so opened up every channel of his intelligence that all his life ran past him in fantastic panorama, as by that illumination which comes to the drowning man. [11]
- At Wolf's entrance the German youth, like a drowning man who sees a friend on the shore, shrieked an entreaty to save him from the murderers who wanted to drag him to death. [10]
- As fishing was the friend of thinking, therefore he fished in Seely's Eddy, saw Fleda Druse run the Carillon Rapids, saved her from drowning, and would have brought her in pride and peace to her own home, but that she decreed otherwise. [11]
- To employ again the figure of the castaway, she often wondered why she of all others had been rescued from the tortures of slow drowning and thrown up on an island. [9]
- Leaning far over the edge of the boat he seized the floating garment of the drowning creature--it was a woman, no Daimon nor shade--and drew her towards him. [10]
- I was glad the drowning was postponed a minute ago, but I'm not now. [5]
- But at last the drowning man looked up and saw the woman so, and, with a last quiver of the arms, he sank from sight. [11]
- He remembered now that, when he was drowning, he had clung to Jopp with frenzied arms and had endangered the bully's life also. [11]
- We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.--The way of Providence is a little rude. [6]
- Suddenly, with reverberating strokes, the mill bells rang out, the electric gongs chattered, the siren screeched, drowning the voices. [9]
- These thoughts became so intolerable, that he began to drink once more in the hope of drowning them. [10]
- How inspiriting to see with what muscular, masculine vigor this splendid Fleming rushed in and plucked up drowning Art by the locks when it was sinking in the trashy sea of such creatures as the Luca Giordanos and Pietro Cortonas and the like. [6]
- But the burgomaster reached the place just at the right time, gave directions for rescuing the drowning people, and then made every, exertion to bring order out of the confusion. [10]
- Once at a picnic by the lake, at the risk of his own life, he saved sister Millie from drowning, and we all liked to have him here. [5]
- His brother, perishing of consumption, hunger, thirst, blazing heat, drowning rains, loss of sleep, lack of exercise, was persistently faithful and circumstantial with his diary from the first day to the last--an instance of noteworthy fidelity and resolution. [5]
- As in the matter of drowning, for instance. [5]
- How grieved your lovers would be--for their sakes I will take care before drowning the dog to lock in its mistress. [10]
- Getting married is jumping overboard, any way you look at it, and if you must save some woman from drowning an old maid, try to find one with a cork jacket, or she 'll carry you down with her. [6]
- He met there his old friend Master Crampton, and he says: "I was more beholden to the Frenchmen that escaped drowning in the man-of-war, Madam Chanoyes of Rotchell, and the lawyers of Burdeaux, than all the rest of my countrymen I met in France. [4]
- The spell of his nearness, of his touch, which all nature that morning conspired to deepen, was too powerful to be broken, and something was calling to her, "Take this day, take this day," drowning out the other voice demanding an accounting. [9]
- He dropped to his knees and hid his face against Bess, and grasped her with the hands of a drowning man. [13]
- Eventually, he hid himself away, on the heights of Mount Pilatus, and dwelt alone among the clouds and crags for years; but rest and peace were still denied him, so he finally put an end to his misery by drowning himself. [5]
- This speech was hailed with a shout of glee drowning his words; but Caracalla had heard his dearly bought troops cheer him with greater zeal and vigor. [10]
- The ice, that had held under those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. [2]
- He felt himself drowning, even wished to drown, --and yet strangely resisted. [9]
- Then the dream changed, and I saw a man in the sea, drowning, who seemed never to drown entirely, his hands ever beating the air and the mocking water. [11]
- Her abrupt silence came upon him like the last engulfing wave to a drowning man--the final assurance of the end, in which there is quiet and the deadly smother. [11]
- Those who have been very near drowning know well what this description means. [6]
- The development of a photograph may not explain it, but it illustrates the curious and familiar fact of the revived recollections of the drowning man's experience. [6]
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