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Example sentences for "drowned"

Lexicographically close words:
drow; drown; drownd; drownded; drowne; drowneth; drowning; drowns; drowse; drowsed
  1. The Russian batteries drowned the sound of all the drums of the first regiment of the division of Cafarelli.

  2. Austria restrains herself no longer; she believes, without doubt, that we are all drowned in the ocean.

  3. But to my great dismay and affright, I saw that no choice was left me now, except that I must climb somehow up that hill of water, or else be washed down into the pool and whirl around it till it drowned me.

  4. Those Red River Half-breeds are no more to be trusted than the purebred red men; and I wish they were both drowned in the nearest salt pool!

  5. Any listener would have imagined that the reptile Don Juan, drowned out of his hole by the icy rain, was seeking with equal relish to taunt a rival or a ladylove to leave its burrow and respond to his challenge or advances.

  6. Elizabeth of York, and the youthful Warwick, son of that Duke of Clarence who was drowned in a butt of Malmsey.

  7. I will make many a poor man's son my heir," said his mother; and the priory that her parents had founded at Embsay was moved by her to Bolton, and greatly enriched in memory of the drowned Boy of Egremond.

  8. Well, I took him down Love Lane to the water meadows, and there Master Harry would have drowned himself in another minute a getting out a water-lily for her.

  9. Frank heard her scream with sudden terror, and the cry was drowned by a hoarse sound from Swiftwing.

  10. Frank uttered the name in a joyous cry of recognition; but his voice was drowned by the sudden uproar in the theatre.

  11. Do you know," he began, "that your sister has been nearly drowned in the Cher, and Ward jumped in after her?

  12. Unfortunately the art of satire is dead, drowned by exaggeration," Mrs. Faulkner said as we went through the cloisters.

  13. When any one shouted for him, as they did fitfully for some time, their voices were always drowned in the general cheerfulness of the evening, and he finally came round from the other side of the table and sat down by me.

  14. New York safe and sound after being drowned on the Assyrian!

  15. He caught part of an oath drowned out by the splitting report of a pistol that went off within an inch of his ear.

  16. Do you know me now--the man you thought you'd drowned a hundred fathoms deep?

  17. Or, like a starving mountebank, expose Thy beauty and thy tear-drowned smile to those Who wait thy jests to drive away thy spleen.

  18. It is rather hard to be drowned by inches, though.

  19. You never can tell what's going to happen; and after you're drowned it's no time to be sorry.

  20. Men were going down by dozens; some plunged from the bridge into the river, seeking to take the chances of being drowned to the certainty of death in that hailstorm of deadly messengers.

  21. The speedy crash that followed drowned the rest of his words.

  22. For, lo, a millstone is hanged about their necks and they shall be drowned in the sea with Satan.

  23. Because thou drownedst others, they have drowned thee, and at the last they who drowned thee shall themselves be drowned.

  24. In the midst of his sufferings, news comes that the bride and groom have been drowned on the seashore.

  25. This difficult situation is made more complicated by the sudden reappearance of Melitte's husband, Thersander, who had been falsely reported drowned at sea.

  26. He had jumped overboard, and everybody thought he was drowned accidentally.

  27. If I go home and tell moster about this thief being drowned here, he will think I did it.

  28. He fell off every foot log in ten miles; why, he was drowned fourteen times in three weeks!

  29. Drowned in the bud by the inflooence of that cussed unlucky number, thirteen.

  30. Curiously enough, the remembrance of a drowned sailor, whose body had once been washed up on the beach near the dock, brought Jeanne a certain sense of comfort.

  31. She knew that Lake Superior was both deep and cold and that even the best of swimmers had been drowned in its icy waters.

  32. You'll be drowned by it, before it has any effect upon you.

  33. Johnson harangued upon the qualities of different liquors; and spoke with great contempt of claret, as so weak, that a man would be drowned by it before it made him drunk.

  34. Gilbert went again in 1583, and reached St. John's, where he erected a pillar commemorating the English occupation; but he was drowned in a storm on the way home.

  35. Kieft sailed from New Amsterdam with the consciousness of having injured his countrymen more than had any enemy; but he was drowned off the Welsh coast, without having brought forth fruits meet for repentance.

  36. The tendency to gnaw worriedly at a thousand disturbing possibilities drowned quickly in a rapidly rising sense of reckless abandon that possessed him.

  37. Johnny quickly drowned the thought in a flood of inconsequential nonsense, a trick he had learned as a green pilot.

  38. Then answered Har: The sons of Bor slew the giant Ymer, but when he fell, there flowed so much blood from his wounds that they drowned therein the whole race of frost giants; excepting one, who escaped with his household.

  39. Derleth The wall of hate that stood between the two old rivermen, Fred Birkett and Hank Blum, had grown from a strange and gruesome rivalry--the finding of dead bodies of persons drowned in the Wisconsin River at Sac Prairie.

  40. Bud Enders was drowned on a warm night in July, and twenty boats put out from Sac Prairie within an hour after he went down.

  41. For all who saw the orient day Rise on the plain, the camp, the flood, The sudden discord drowned in blood- O brothers, pray!

  42. I was drowned yesterday in the river at Caen, about this hour.

  43. He was drowned in the brig 'Somers,' when she capsized in the fall of this year.

  44. On the great battle-ship, with hundreds of its men blown to pieces or penned down by steel débris to be drowned in the rapidly rising waters, there was no panic.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drowned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afloat; awash; buried; drenched; drowned; engulfed; flooded; immersed; inundated; overwhelmed; permeated; saturated; soaked; soaking; sodden; soggy; sopping; soused; submarine; submerged; sunken; swamped; waterlogged; weeping