All the world, except Noah and his family, are drowning in the deluge.
It was no use to think of drowning herself--she could not do it, at least while she had money left to buy food and strength to journey on.
The girl, Yvonne, she saved from drowning last year, and her baby, she still shelters among her own children in her hut.
This latest drowning at Pont du Sable was a tragedy--or rather, the culmination of a series of tragedies.
It would not allow shipwrecked sailors to be rescued fromdrowning on Sunday.
It was the cry of a drowningman in the wild roar of the cruel sea.
I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowningin the sea.
The saved mariner is too happy when he touches the shore to give a moment's thought to his drowning brothers.
In the time of James the First, a man was executed for causing a storm at sea with the intention of drowning one of the royal family.
As a general thing, the gods have stopped drowning children, except as a punishment for violating the Sabbath.
An acute situation is the drowningof seabirds caught in salmon gill nets (Bartonek et al.
Drowning of diving birds in fishnets is obviously of great potential impact, but its importance depends greatly on the rapidly changing practices of fishermen.
We believe that it was he who tried to drown Dudley, after he had succeeded in drowning Edward Jacobs.
But the treatment of a drowning man--that requires special knowledge, surely!
Indeed, it was his own servants who did the most toward drowning his voice by their well-meant endeavors to shout down the interrupting cries.
Lea started to say something, but he rushed on, drowning out her words.
I put it to you fairly: is it likely that she, with her seraph nature, all love and burning, she that is tender over drowning flies, would have put me to this horrible pain?
To them death by drowning was a very different thing from that which it was to those who were his friends.
It was with bitter pangs that Mr. Richards was obliged to refuse the help he could not give to the poor drowning wretches, for the boat was near swamping with the burden she already bore.
The efforts put forth to save thedrowning were marked by another calamity.
Drowning men were struggling in all directions, and their groans and cries were fearfully appalling.
Death by drowning was for them only a short swift passage to the heavenly land, where "there shall be no more sea.
They then pour the water down the hole, either drowning the creature or compelling him to come out.
Humming-birds are scarce, though here and there a few appear; while countless numbers of parrots and parrakeets fly overhead in dense crowds, at times drowning every other sound with their noisy clatter.
She thought, May this be a better death than drowning under the ice.
Feeling like a drowning man being swept away on rapids, White Bear watched Running Deer and Burning Pine lift Nancy from the ground and carry her off, with her feet dragging.
His canoe rounded a huge fallen tree, whose exposed roots clutched at the island's shore like the fingers of a drowning man, and disappeared behind the trunk.
Star Arrow was not fighting him, any more than water fights a drowning man.
He screamed with rage and triumph, drowning out the agonized shrieks of his enemy.
But the affair of drowning the horses was probably for a long time a topic of gossip, and may have given to the author of the catastrophe a notoriety which nearly cost him his life.
Some pieces being dipped in water, they went into the convulsions and struggles of drowning persons; and one of them rushed out of the room, and raced down towards the river.
We have in this story the keynote to the notorious and much-to-be-deprecated dislike of the Chinese people to assist in saving the lives of drowning strangers.
It was as if I were drowning before a crowd of spectators who thought I was cutting up tricks for their entertainment.
I was no more myself than a drowning man is who continues to struggle after he has lost consciousness.
I must find out if anything is amiss on board the ship and attend to these drowning men--even before you, my darling!
Cheers broke out from every part of the ship, drowning the yells of execration and the shouts of fear from below.
One man of whom Burleigh spoke with regard and regret was stanch old Turnbull, whose sad death by drowning in the surf off Pinos, the quartermaster referred to several times.
Then another remarked-- "Drowning is too good for him.
Solon, the moment he had given him into our charge, darted off to the relief of the other drowning men.
An unexpected roller has come in and turned them over and over, drowning all hands, while the odd-looking and despised native boat has landed her passengers in perfect safety.
Had it even been smoother in the lagoon we had no means of going out to the assistance of our drowning fellow-creatures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drowning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
