Sentence for sink | Use sink in a sentence

Sentences using the word sink. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use sink in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for sink.

  • Let them sink us! (10)
  • Near by was an iron sink. (13)
  • She expected to sink under it. (10)
  • Follow her, and thou wilt not sink. (10)
  • He must sink into a different sphere. (10)
  • Sound the conscience, and sink the family! (10)
  • Pierson waited in silence, watching the sun sink. (8)
  • She was ready to sink as she entered the parlour. (4)
  • He went to the sink and washed his arms and hands. (13)
  • Captain Ransome felt his world sink away from his feet. (1)
  • Tears of men sink plummet-deep; they find their level. (10)
  • To sink with flag flying is next to sinking the enemy. (10)
  • But while I live, Evan, you shall not sink in the sludge. (10)
  • And she felt as if she could, sink under the seat with shame. (8)
  • Emma was almost ready to sink under the agitation of this moment. (4)
  • That our soul may swim, We sink our heart down bubbling under wave. (10)
  • How many, longing for the light, Sink deeper in the abyss this night! (10)
  • I want to sink, to steep, to hide, to bury myself in the life of man. (12)
  • However, when you sink into this abyss again, you will have more to say. (4)
  • If he had a wish, it was to sink so low in her esteem as to be spurned. (10)
  • The brother did not speak; he coughed vaguely, and let his head sink forward. (9)
  • I have tried to sink myself as profoundly as possible into his psychical life. (12)
  • De Craye trifled with the window-sash, to give his words time to sink in solution. (10)
  • A conviction that everything she said was literal had begun slowly to sink into him. (8)
  • He was only practising upon sick bodies; later he would sink himself into sick souls. (12)
  • It seemed to her that she should sink upon the stairs in mounting them to the library. (9)
  • Sometimes they were April, variable to soar with rain-skirts and sink with sunshafts. (10)
  • But for that very reason you are open to be tempted the most, and to sink the deepest. (10)
  • From that there could no fall, at least, and now she had risen from it only to sink again. (9)
  • It was a noble picture, but I soon destroyed it, for I began at once to sink again to the earth. (1)
  • Mrs. March put her arms round him to kiss him, and when she let him sink back her eyes were dim. (9)
  • This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem. (4)
  • I should sink to the ground like a dead body when I think of separation from you for three years. (10)
  • I should like to pluck out my heart and pitch it on the waves, to see whether it would sink or swim. (10)
  • You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. (4)
  • When they are shot in a vital spot they sink down on the ground with a low cry, and silently pass away. (21)
  • She led the youth trembling, appalled, To the lake-banks he saw sink and rise Like a panic-struck breast. (10)
  • Of course, with such a wife, he would sink to a secondary social sphere; was it to be regretted if he did? (10)
  • Burnamy sat dumb; and his head which he had lifted indignantly when the question was of Stoller, began to sink. (9)
  • The lamps and censers sink, but cannot cheat These eyes of thine that shoot above Trembling lustres of the dove! (10)
  • She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more. (4)
  • She could lay it aside, or sink it to the bottom of her emotions, at will, when circumstances appeared against it. (10)
  • Should that mighty event not come to pass, poor Charles will have to sink the name of Everett in that of Pollingray. (10)
  • She went up to her mother and kissed her, and gazed into her face with joyful, tearful looks that made her heart sink. (9)
  • But there was a great deal of silence in it all, and at times, in spite of his shadowy kindness, I felt my spirits sink. (9)
  • Yes, they were married; they had a son; they were bound to sink misunderstandings, in the interests of their little son. (10)
  • Her strangled thought got breath, with her worship held debate; To yield and sink, yet eye askant the mark she had missed. (10)
  • Her sister would accept both with a lightness that would keep no trace of either; but in her they would sink lastingly deep. (9)
  • A feeling that he would never open them again beset him; he let it grow, let himself sink; then, with a shiver, dragged the lids up. (8)
  • They sink upon their nature, the unnamed, And sops of nourishment may get some few, In place of understanding, scourged and shamed. (10)
  • Nine of the other ten, blinded by their spiritual courage, are harder to convince; but one by one they sink, still proclaiming their virility. (8)
  • Gluck, however, made it impossible that it should ever again sink to the level of the mass of crudities and puerilities from which he lifted it. (3)
  • Some very grave reproof, or at least the coldest expression of indifference, must be coming to distress her brother, and sink her to the ground. (4)
  • He and Mr. Austin departed from Mount Laurels, leaving her to sink into an agreeable stupor, like one deposited on a mudbank after buffeting the waves. (10)

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