How to Use sunken in a Sentence

sunken

adjective
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  • Her eyes were sunken and lifeless.
  • So the Camerons have the Cross and the sunken gold as the Pogues escape from their ship.
    — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Ariel may have found the sunken ship of the King and Queen of Arendelle.
    — Jelani Addams Rosa, Seventeen, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The next morning, the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, was found in the backseat of the sunken car.
    — Kathy Shiels Tully, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Wood from a sunken Spanish galleon was used for the bar.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Instead of an ace in the hole, Sale looks like sunken cost.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Vescovo is the first human to lay eyes on the sunken ship.
    — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • That was my first time pulling a person out of a sunken car in a canal.
    — Kimberly Rapanut, azcentral, 11 July 2018
  • The fish hangs under the sunken boulder, one clear eye on me.
    — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The home boasts 12 bathrooms and a sunken tennis court.
    — Ebony Day, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Starting at the bottom, the open beach club is equipped with a bar, a lounge and a sunken Jacuzzi.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Some people have claimed to hear church bells from a sunken church.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Rand and Moiraine reach the Eye of the World, a sunken chamber as dank and wet as the Blight is dark and ugly.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Tante Malkeh pries open the girl’s mouth, and, her old eyes lighted up in their sunken depths.
    — Abigail Deutsch, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • But the canal is blocked by sunken ships and doesn’t reopen until 1957.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But the canal was blocked by sunken ships and did not reopen until 1957.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • One fireplace is in the 754-square-foot, sunken living room.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Most of the boating scenes were filmed onsite, along with a few dives to get some footage of sunken ships.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The Arizona is not the only sunken shipwreck that still has oil on board.
    — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Webster said her favorite room in the house is the sunken living room.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Outside, a large pool is flanked on either side by a spa and a sunken fire pit.
    — Mary Grace Metheny, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2020
  • To the north of the welcome center, the architects added a sunken courtyard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • Within the light well, a small sunken garden also brings a hint of nature to the space.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Of those twenty-three thousand ships, this one was closest to the sunken sloop.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The question of who owns the sunken treasure is also in contention.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • More notably, though, is that the sunken place is a metaphor that does not uniquely apply to Dre.
    — refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • At the helm of the new venture is Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who found the sunken wreck of the Titanic.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The amphitheater has a sunken stage with grassy, ledged seating.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Photo : Daniel Petroni A backyard pool and spillover spa are nestled alongside an open-air pavilion with a sunken dining area.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Hung over the main house’s sunken living room sofa, its rich textures and colors—browns, reds, greens, and taupe—inform the soft furniture, rugs, and patterns Baird used throughout the home.
    — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024

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