49 Verbs to Use for the Word sank

Coubitant saw her sink to the ground, and, with a mighty effort, he shook off the grasp of Jyanough, and darted towards Oriana.

Again he felt the sickening sink of the plane, as if it were an elevator-car loosed from its cable.

Seeing it go down the drain would be for her like watching a loved child sink for the third time in some pond or mere.

Is it not better to let go a petty interest, than to further it by committing so notorious and heinous a sin; to let an ambitious project sink, than to buoy it up by such base means?

The door having been closed, Fletcher Two mounted a low stone sink which ran along the end wall, and from this ready-made platform commenced to address the assembly : "Gentlemen,We've met here, as you know, to talk over starting a fresh magazine.

Here you find the hot sink of Death Valley, or high rolling districts where the air has always a tang of frost.

To nothingness my art and talent sink; He fails who from his mortal stores hath given A thousandfold to match one gift divine.

Having examined the Nature of every Creature, and found out one which was the most proper for his Purpose, he again returns to Paradise; and, to avoid Discovery, sinks by Night with a River that ran under the Garden, and rises up again through a Fountain that [issued ] from it by the Tree of Life.

"Our nature's totally depraved The heart a sink of sin; Without a change we can't be saved, Ye must be born again.

And methinks I hear it wafted, Thy sweet voice, remote yet clear, Till thy song, descending slowly, Sinks into the silent mere.

One squad digs the sink.

"Why," said Zadig to the fisherman, "dost thou sink under thy misfortunes?"

180 Winds the still vale, and slopes the velvet mead; On the pale stream expiring Zephyrs sink, And Moonlight sleeps upon its hoary brink.

He eyed the sink and the tiny range with a suspicious eye.

See to what a lovely peace the Creating Hand has even now brought our England, far as she is yet from being a province in the kingdom of Heaven; but see also in her former condition a type of the horror to which our souls may festering sink, if we shut out His free spirit, and have it no more moving upon the face of our waters.

Sohráb, still breathing, hears the shrill alarms, His gentle speech suspends the clang of arms: "My light of life now fluttering sinks in shade, Let vengeance sleep, and peaceful vows be made.

If, as with some men one meets, he studies it through a microscope and adds it up with anxious browmeanwhile quite evidently forgetting your presencehow your heart sinks, sinks and hardensbut you are glad all the same, and next day you congratulate yourself on your narrow escape!" "Was I like that?" said I. "Did we escape?" asked Aurea.

In June the thinnest parts of the winter ceiling, and those most exposed to sunshine, begin to give way, forming dark, rugged-edged, pit-like sinks, at the bottom of which the rushing water may be seen.

The weary and all forspent twopenny postman sinks beneath a load of delicate embarrassments, not his own.

E.g., it would in general be granted that 'iron sinks in water,' yet it does not follow that because 'this ship is iron' it will 'sink in water,' Hence syllogistic 'proof' seems quite devoid of the 'cogency' it claimed.

If he dines away and "pairs," of course he does not in the least jeopardize his party or embarrass his colleagues; but "pairs" are not indicated in the list of divisions, and, as divisions have an awkward knack of happening between nine and ten, the habitual diner-out naturally sinks in the list.

The accompanying cuts illustrate a sink of four compartments for dish-washing, devised by the writer for use in the Sanitarium Domestic Economy kitchen, which can be closed and used as a table.

An officer should inspect the sink as soon as the detail reports it as completed.

and that "I do not know" sinks into and permeates the mind.

The dishes from the invalid's lunch-tray littered the sink.

49 Verbs to Use for the Word  sank