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How to use the word sunken in a Sentence?

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His face is sunken and his skin doesn’t look good. He’s gone from one extreme to the other, that message he’s spouting should not be marketed.

New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Her eyes were so sunken, and she just seemed so sad.

Trista Jordan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Her eyes were so sunken, and she just seemed so sad, she wasn’t herself. She was in so much pain. She had Bambi legs and couldn’t stand up.

Trista Jordan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most of the bodies were found inside the sunken boat after it was dragged to the bank.

Mustain Billah

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I was muted. Can you believe that? I told the best joke of my life and I was muted. I felt like I was in a sunken place.

Daniel Kaluuya

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I and our organization, marchers, demonstrators and potential voters left here sunken, sad, traumatized, obstructed and distracted from our intention to lead people all the way to the polls, let me tell you something : We were beaten, but we will not be broken.

Gregory Drumwright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When the royal family was writing these blueprints for royal brides, Meghan couldn’t have been further from their original idea, it was blonde, English roses from aristocratic families. [Harry’s older brother] William bent that rule by marrying a girl from a much more middle-class family. Britain's Prince Harry poses with Meghan Markle in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace, London, on Nov. 27, 2017. (Reuters) And Harry is taking it a stage further… History proves with the most recent royal wives of Windsor that if you don’t stay in your lane, you can fall down. Diana became the star and that marriage didn’t work. Fergie was fun, free loving and a breath of fresh air. But that didn’t work.

Spun Gold

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

HARRISON FORD SERVED AS UNDERCOVER ADVISER FOR ‘ SOLO : ‘ A STAR WARS STORY ’ Jordan Peele spoke about the underlying themes of the movie which included slavery. I realized what this movie was about. I realized that slavery was not something of the past. The' sunken place' to me, shouted to me, that in today’s time, in modern time, we have black men and women abducted and put in dark holes. We have our freedoms taken away … I realized at that point that there were people being locked up and taken out of the world and taken from their families for holding less weed than I was smoking while I was writing this movie.

Jordan Peele

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We’ve done a number of these explorations to try to find sunken warships, we try to do these both as really exciting examples of underwater archeology and as tributes to the brave men that went down in these ships.

Paul Allen

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was really surprised because the location of the sunken ship has never been identified since it went down, i have heard countless stories in the past that the ship was discovered, but they all turned out not to be true.

Kazushige Todaka

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I was really surprised because the location of the sunken ship has never been identified since it went down. I have heard countless stories in the past that the ship was discovered, but they all turned out not to be true. wonderful discovery.

Kazushige Todaka

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I've found Sohrab's belongings when the sunken ferry was brought to the shore, but I haven't found Sohrab.

Ayesha Begum

Found on CNN
9 years ago

But it’s going to impact my mom even more. In the past week his face has become sunken and yellowed. The doctors told us he is fading fast now.

Angel Maushund

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

Hannah Pik-Goslar

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick W. Faber

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Sri da Avabhas

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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