Use sink in a sentence
Sentences starting with sink
- Sink the title thou hast uttered--'tis treason; we be bad men in some few trifling ways, but none among us is so base as to be traitor to his King; we be loving and loyal hearts, in that regard. [5]
Sentences ending with sink
- Four apartments opened upon each landing, in which was the common hydrant and sink. [4]
- You are well up on the bar, now; there is a bar under every point, because the water that comes down around it forms an eddy and allows the sediment to sink. [5]
- Tom's heart began to sink. [5]
- Instantly she began to sink. [11]
- We could not sink. [5]
- She struck a rock and began to sink. [5]
- I saw another line of galleys steering directly towards us, and a Roman vessel assailed by one of mine--I had named her the Selene--turn on her side and sink. [10]
- And if he beat me and scorned me, if he fell so deep that no man would leap in after him, I, I, would never let him sink. [10]
Sentences containing sink two or more times
- He said he would sail his balloon around the globe just to show what he could do, and then he would sink it in the sea, and sink us all along with it, too. [5]
- If my Jean there had done a thing as that I would sink him in the sea-- he would sink himself, je me crais! [11]
- As he idled along he talked to himself, and finally broke out into singing: "'Then swing the long boat down the drink, For the lads as pipe to go; But I sink when the 'Lovely Jane' does sink, To the mermaids down below. [11]
More example sentences with the word sink in them
- Carry word to your captain that we'll overhaul him by sundown, and sink him before supper. [11]
- I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. [7]
- There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
- For a few yards Silver Tassel was going strong, then his pace slackened, he seemed to sink lower in the water, and his stroke became splashing and irregular. [11]
- All the other wonderful inventions of the human brain sink pretty nearly into commonplace contrasted with this awful mechanical miracle. [5]
- He felt that when the next test came the old man would either break completely, and sink down into another and everlasting forgetfulness, or tear away forever the veil between himself and his past, and emerge into a long-lost life. [11]
- He always knew what everybody thought--that he would never do anything but play cricket till he got too heavy to run, and then would sink into a slothful, fat, and useless middle and old age; that his life would be a failure. [11]
- Yet I am well aware, it will not do either to complain, or sink, and I strive to do neither. [14]
- The men's mouths watered for him, for he would have made a whole banquet; but no one dared to touch him, of course, for he would sink a boat promptly if molested. [5]
- But life requires us to take them just as we find them, and you, sweetheart, have never let this sink into your mind! [10]
- It was enough to waterlog her and sink her in such a sea. [4]
- How much better to thus save the money which else we sink forever in war! [7]
- She felt ready to sink through the floor, and Mrs. Holt's delft-blue eyes haunted her afterwards like a nightmare. [9]
- Every man seemed to sink himself in his own thoughts, and to forget where he was. [5]
- Then she appeared to sink away into herself for a moment, before she fell into conversation with the others, as they moved towards the vestry. [11]
- She had come to me last night ah--true; but that was in keeping with her dramatic temperament; it was the drama of it that had appealed to her; and to-morrow she would forget me, and sink her fresh spirit in the malarial shadows of Doltaire's. [11]
- The ground seemed to heave beneath her feet; sick and giddy she put out her hand to find some support, that she might not sink on her knees; in so doing, she caught the tall tripod which held the dish of coals. [10]
- The outsiders began to ground steamboats, sink them, and get into all sorts of trouble, whereas accidents seemed to keep entirely away from the association men. [5]
- I will go to America, where all men are equal and all have an equal chance; I will live or die, sink or swim, win or lose as just a man--that alone, and not a single helping gaud or fiction back of it. [5]
- If they failed, they were to be called knaves and fools, and fanatics for a fleeting hour; then to sink and be forgotten. [7]
- You know, when they sink a well," he went on to the company, "they can't always most generally sometimes tell whether they're goin' to get gas or oil or salt water. [8]
- My daughter, let these tears sink deep into thy soul, and no longer persist in that which may be your destruction and ruin. [5]
- If one of them threatened to sink altogether under his burden, he was refreshed by the whip of one of the horsemen, who accompanied the caravan. [10]
- Again and again the two men seemed to sink beneath the sea, and again and again they came to the surface and battled further, torn, battered, and bloody, but not beaten. [11]
- Almost everybody admits that if it is abandoned England must sink to the position of a third-rate power like Holland. [4]
- It's sink or swim with me, and if you can't help me--oh, I'd take my gruel without whining, if it wasn't for Di! [11]
- I was naturally susceptible, and tried to form other attachments, but my heart would not hold on; it would continually recur to what it had lost; and whenever there was a pause in the hurry of novelty and excitement, I would sink into dismal dejection. [4]
- They watched the sun spread out his banners, presently veil his head in them, and sink below the world. [11]
- As to any special book, the publisher is the sole judge whether to push it or to let it sink into the stagnation of unadvertised goods. [4]
- After leaving the Sink, we traveled along the Humboldt river a little way. [5]
- If Kansas should sink to-day, and leave a great vacant space in the earth's surface, this vexed question would still be among us. [7]
- A white enamelled sink is in the rear right corner. [9]
- You ought to sink into the earth for shame of the sin you have committed. [10]
- Otherwise he would sink into indolence, and the more gifted men would not be more successful in the battle of life than the less gifted. [1]
- We saw them sink down in the snow and rest, and drink something from a bottle. [5]
- I would rather sink a steamboat than eat, any time. [5]
- We decided to sink a shaft. [5]
- If an earthquake should suddenly sink this temple and all its votaries into the bowels of the earth, with all its nervousness and all its electricity, it is appalling to think what would become of the business of the country. [4]
- There was no shorthand reporter in Coniston in those days, and it is just as well, perhaps, that the accusations and recriminations should sink into oblivion. [9]
- Sometimes the sky seemed to be rising high, high overhead, and then it seemed to sink so low that one could touch it with one's hand. [2]
- At supper Herdegen scarce ate a morsel, for he could not bring himself to endure that his betrothed should sink so low as to receive an alms. [10]
- Yesterday evening we saw the Big Dipper and the north star sink below the horizon and disappear from our world. [5]
- Presently, however, he saw her droop and sink away out of sight. [11]
- The longer he sat, the deeper did his misery sink into his soul. [11]
- It is the practice of the country folk, whose only object is to get fish, to use a good deal of bait, sink the hook to the bottom of the pools, and wait the slow appetite of the summer trout. [4]
- He abused that photographer till he almost made him sink through the floor, and then he fined him a hundred dollars. [5]
- I'm afraid--he'd sink out of sight entirely, and it's the one hold I have left on him. [9]
- The blood which our best and bravest have shed will never sink into the ground until our wrongs are righted, or the power to right them is shown to be insufficient. [6]
- At the sound of approaching steps, the opening of a door or the unexpected tones of a man's voice, she would start, get up and listen, and then sink back into the old waiting, longing attitude, disappointed but not hopeless. [10]
- Therefore, pray do not sink your real character in paying unmeaning compliments to me. [12]
- The Englishman took no notice, but instantly turned to see his own ship lurch forwards and, without a sound from her decks, sink gently down to her grave. [11]
- I've got some new whiskey I 'low will sink tallow. [9]
- Suddenly I saw Mrs. Temple take the lady's arm, and sink down upon the bench. [9]
- His face had lost its roses, and it was set and determined, but there was no look of fear upon it, nor did his heart sink when a cry of triumph went up from the crowd on the banks. [11]
- There was another long, horrible wait; then there was a flash, and I see Tom's head sink down outside the boat and disappear. [5]
- It was a long square, the shape of a grave; the rain had made it sink down and show the shape. [5]
- Yes, you can let that sink down into you--I'll not have it. [11]
- It is this knowledge of the individual worth of the reviewer's opinion, which makes the censures of some sink so deep, and prey so heavily upon an author's heart. [14]
- Only one person knew that he could laugh and play noisily, and this one was the beautiful woman at the long table, who knew not whether she should die of joy, or sink into the earth with shame. [10]
- He paused that John Duff might translate and the gist of what he had said sink in. [9]
- If we do, it will be with sincere pity that we shall watch the proud vessel sink to the bottom, and we shall understand the grief of those whom once it bore over ebb and flow, and who believe they owe every thing to it. [10]
- Now, I put it to you, why don't he sink some of that money where it belongs--in living wages? [9]
- I have heard it stated that if a thoroughly righteous man were cast away with ninety and nine ruffians, each of the ruffians would gain one-one-hundredth in virtue, whilst the righteous man would sink to their new level. [9]
- What a kaleidoscope it is, this summer travel, and what an entertainment, if the tourist can only keep his "impression plates" fresh to take the new scenes, and not sink into the state of chronic grumbling at hotels and minor discomforts! [4]
- The sanctuary was indeed the centre of Hellenic culture in the city of Alexander; what marvel then, that the heathen should believe that with the overthrow of Serapis and his temple, the earth, nay the universe itself must sink into the abyss? [10]
- To sink the imperial policy is to shut this vision. [4]
- Deadly pale, as if ready to sink, he tottered towards the door. [10]
- I laughed as I sat beside him, and saw him sink to sleep and die. [11]
- Besides, the Honourable Hogarth Leveret, whose fame in the colony was now often in peril because of his Cavalier propensities, and whose losses had aged him, could not bear that he should sink and carry his daughter with him. [11]
- But Argutis felt his heart sink within him when the philosopher desired him to fetch the pipe his father used to teach the birds to whistle, and at the same time took up the sharp kitchen knife with which Argutis slaughtered the sheep. [10]
- It was for him to realise now how deep are the depths to which the human soul can sink, even while labouring to climb. [11]
- The gardens are hidden by high mud-walls, and the paradise is become a very sink of pollution and uncomeliness. [5]
- And then Washington's heart world sink again and a sigh would tell when it touched bottom. [5]
- Standing there alone, he was once more a naval officer, and he called out sternly: "Sir, I hope to sink you and your smuggling craft within four- and-twenty hours! [11]
- After the water has begun to sink it rises once more in October and to a higher level than before. [10]
- The quieter he has become, the deeper my hand will sink in my purse. [10]
- There are no harassments; the deep peace and quiet of the country sink into one's body and bones and give his conscience a rest, and chloroform the legion of invisible small devils that are always trying to whitewash his hair. [5]
- Smith unexpectedly returning had the plot discovered to him, much trouble he had to prevent it, till with store of sakre and musket-shot he forced them to stay or sink in the river, which action cost the life of Captain Kendall. [4]
- I saw it go down the declivity that sloped southward, then climb the next ascent, then sink gradually until the window in the back of it disappeared like an eye that shuts, and leaves the world dark to some widowed heart. [6]
- In order to get in, we agreed to sink 30 ft. We have sub-let to another man for 50 ft., and we pay for powder and sharpening tools. [5]
- I could stand gazing for hours at the sea, and as the waves rose only to sink again and vanish, I often reflected that I was like them, and that the future of my frivolous present must be a mere empty nothing. [10]
- The scarcely touched food was laid aside, the coffee-pot emptied, Hannah put the cups in the basin in the sink and let the water run. [9]
- As the stars fly, have thy footsteps flown-- Deep is the well, drink, and be still once more; Till the pursuing winds, panting, have found thee And, defeated, sink still beside thee-- By the well and the etl tree. [11]
- As the stars fly, have thy footsteps flown Deep is the well, drink, and be still once more; Till the pursuing winds panting have found thee And, defeated, sink still beside thee-- By the well and the Etl tree. [11]
- It was my fate to sink at the crisis, when I should have collected my strength. [14]
- His staring blue eyes took on a dull cloud, and his whole figure seemed to sink and shrink away. [11]
- It is safe enough to go into the water with those who can swim, but those who sink are apt to draw you down with them. [10]
- To relinquish his dream of power, to sink for a while into a crippled state; for he had spent large sums, and one of those periodical depressions had come in the business of the mills, and those Western investments were not looking so bright now. [9]
- It will sink down and sleep. [5]
- Greatly astonished and deeply moved he saw her turn from him, utterly shaken by the agitation of her feelings, and sink on her knees by the side of the couch she had quitted to hide her face in the cushions. [10]
- Woman's affections are deep, consequently her troubles may be made to sink deep. [5]
- On such a day it was his habit to retire to the broken chair beside the sink (the chair to which he had clung for five-and-twenty years). [9]
- He turned round coolly and called out, "Coward-we'll sink you before supper! [11]
- You were everywhere confronted with completed work, and you are right when you refuse to sink to mere imitators of earlier works, and therefore return to Nature, with which we Hellenes, and perhaps the Egyptians also, began. [10]
- The tide would come and carry his father's body out, perhaps-far out, and sink it in the deepest depths. [11]
- He always took cold so easily, and that will keep him warm and dry, if those terrible Germans sink his ship. [9]
- Two persons so closely allied should sink and perish, still firmly united, in the final battle, if victory was denied. [10]
- The duchy of Bercy may sink or swim for all of me, if so be it does not stand with us in our holy war. [11]
- As the sun began to sink into the west they took their way homeward athwart the long shadows of the trees and soon were buried from sight in the forests of Cardiff Hill. [5]
- Let us then be thankful to those who destroy the gorgeous vessel, who drive it from amongst us, or sink or burn it. [10]
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