Sentence for sank | Use sank in a sentence

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• Her heart sank. (8)
• Her voice sank. (10)
• And his heart sank. (8)
• He sank his voice. (10)
• He sank into a chair. (10)
• He sank back in his chair. (10)
• Christian sank on her knees. (8)
• She did, and my heart sank. (10)
• Fiorsen sank back on the divan. (8)
• He tapped, and it sank further. (8)
• Then it was over, and he sank. (10)
• The saloon rose round him and sank. (9)
• His voice sank almost to a whisper. (12)
• March sank into the chair at her side. (9)
• I questioned and sank to the depths again. (10)
• No sooner did he touch her, than she sank down. (8)
• Her bosom lifted to a wavering height and sank. (10)
• And suddenly his heart sank like a scuttled ship. (10)
• She sank down, and covered her face with her arms. (8)
• Sir Purcell, however, never sank, and never bent. (10)
• She sank back in the carriage and closed her eyes. (10)
• Niels Heinrich, drawn forward, sank upon his knees. (12)
• Her heart sank heavily under the belief that it was. (10)
• Christian sank on her knees, burying her face in her hands. (8)
• He put his hat down and sank into a chair without speaking. (9)
• The sun sank; the darkness spread around; the air grew icy. (10)
• She was enfolded; she sank on the nest, dropping her eyelids. (10)
• Her eyes darted at his face again, and then sank as if rebuked. (8)
• She sank down on her knees, and laid her cheek against his hand. (8)
• His anger did not evaporate in words, but condensed and sank deep. (10)
• Soames sank back on his chair, and fell to cherishing the foot again. (8)
• Her heart sank, and then rose in revolt against the mere idea of delay. (9)
• He sank back into his chair when Fulkerson was gone and drew a long breath. (9)
• She gave a faint, scarce audible shriek, and sank into the chair beside me. (6)
• Then for a moment he seemed to hesitate, and his chin sank back on his chest. (8)
• He sank into a chair; white as if life had issued with the secret of his life. (10)
• Lifted to his feet, the general sank back to the earth with a moan and fainted. (1)
• He relaxed the grip of his arms; she sank down and stayed unmoving on the grass. (8)
• Slowly he raised the glass, slowly put it back, and sank gasping on his pillows. (8)
• As Helen made no reply to this observation, they sank again into silent thought. (13)
• When I was thirteen years younger I was loved, and my dearest sank to the grave. (10)
• With this outburst he sank again into the chair, and leaned his head on his hand. (8)
• Aunt Hester, who had also risen, sank back in her chair, and turned her face away. (8)
• Remonstrance, argument, a word for Dudley, swelled to his lips and sank in dumbness. (10)
• The words had scarce left his lips ere the brave Brock sank down shot through the breast. (19)
• The long procession sank down the darkness, leaving the low red fire to die out behind them. (10)
• Then while her fingers eagerly tore it open, her heart, the champion rider over-night, sank. (10)
• Suddenly she shrieked aloud and her mistress sank together and covered her face with her hands. (5)
• The late-comers sank into the crowd of black-coated men, who filled the hall to the broad stairs. (13)
• Mrs. Leighton sank deep into an accusing gloom when at last she found herself alone with her daughter. (9)
• She sank into a chair before which she had been standing, and she looked as if she were going to swoon. (9)
• The little house stood in solitude, just above a low bank of cliff whence the beach sank in sandy ridges. (8)
• Then, flinging the ham-bone from him, he sank back among the cushions, with his chin buried on his chest. (8)
• He stood up to help her, but seeing how securely she stayed herself from chair to chair he sank down again. (9)
• Vittoria sank shuddering on the lap of her maid, hiding her face that she might plunge out of recollection. (10)
• It became an affair of twinkling musketry and broad flares of artillery; then it sank to silence in the dark. (7)
• From rock to rock she swerved and sank; on the last ledge she scraped with a deadly touch that went to the heart. (9)
• The occupations, duties, and ceremonies of her new position contributed to the lassitude into which Rosamund sank. (10)
• Instead, she sank into the chair which stood in the corner, and passed her hand over her forehead, as if she were giddy. (9)
• It sank in Rhoda like the preaching of an end that was promise of a beginning, and girdled a distancing land of trouble. (22)
• The wave of wide extension rolled and sank and rose, heaving lifeless variations of the sickly streaks on its dull green back. (10)
• The dusty mote-images rose; Sheer film of the surface awag: They sank as they rose; their pain Declaring them mine of old days. (10)
• At last this dancer to the Polar star Sank, washed out within, and overboard was pitched, To drink the sea and pilot him to land. (10)
• Those who came aboard at Rochester failed to lighten the spiritual gloom, and presently they sank into the common bodily wretchedness. (9)
• Not before the moon of midnight was in the sky ceased Bhanavar sporting with the serpents, and she sank to sleep exhausted in their midst. (10)
• The phantom sank straight down as if sinking through the floor, but lay there like a white shawl trailed along the bottom of the dark curtain. (9)
• Lord Carlisle, the British Commissioner, returned to England and history tells us that he became Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and sank into oblivion. (18)

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Definition of sank:

• sank, sangk, pa.t. of sink.(0)

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