6 Metaphors for sinking

"Sink! sink! sink!" was Head's answer, and he continued to sink until he could no longer be seen.

The ordinary oblong sink is an abomination.

The first sink is a shock to them and seems to brace them to action.

4. Then let commaundement every where be given, That sinkes and gutters, privies, crevises, And every place where blood may be conceald, Be throughly searcht, swept, washt, and neerely sought, To see if we can finde the murther out.

The blasting of hundreds of villages, the sinking of thousands of ships, and the killing of millions of men is no small monument to the power of the human will.

Five hundred years later and we find that whereas the sinking is inches near the ground level it is only 4 inches at the windows, plainly showing that it had sunk inches before the remedy was applied and four inches since.

6 Metaphors for  sinking