The foot that is not true, that left or right shall waver, Drowns in the flood below the passenger unlucky.
Fraeulein used to make me say when I was a child whispers to me, and its small voice drowns the cry of my desires.
My soul drownsand is lost in its indefinite and fathomless desire.
She fears not to wet her feet, to wade through the waters of comfort, but comes not near the seas of iniquity, where folly drowns affection in the delight of vanity.
His conscience would fain speak with him, but he will not hear it; sets the day, but he disappoints it; and when it cries loud for audience, he drowns the noise with good fellowship.
The very nakedness of paper frightens me and drowns my looks.
It is only a few years since we heard the puling cry of the first aeroplanes, and now their voice drowns all others.
It drownsship and sailor; but "trim your sail, and the same wave which drowns the bark is cleft by it, and bears it along like its own foam, a plume and a power.
She loves him passionately and hopelessly, saves his life and that of his betrothed at the destruction of Pompeii; embarks with them in a skiff bound for a safer harbor, and while all are asleep, springs overboard and drowns herself.
Besides, He has a cough that nightly drowns the bellman; Calls up his family; all his neighbours rise, And go by it, as by the chimes and clock.
Hang him, he casts a scent That drowns my perfumes, and is strong enough To cure the mother of palsy.
There is no command that drowns the command of the soul.
But he has, though; and during all this young-sealing business we both of us just drowns our feelings in the rum-bottle.
Another sound my spirit hears, A deeper sound that drowns them all; A voice of pleading choked with tears, The call of human hopes and fears, The Macedonian cry to Paul!
Even the Indian sparrow drowns conversation with his shrill chirp, taking advantage of the ever-open doors and windows to invade the bungalow, and making determined efforts to make his nest in the most inconvenient places.
Amidst the many sounds of the restless Indian night, some far away, some near at hand, there is one which, when it commences, drowns all the rest.
In the cities, the wave of political bitterness drowns all friendly impulses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drowns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
