Like a person in a quicksand, every effort to escape sinks the body deeper; or, like a drowning man, the more he raises his hands to heaven, the more speedy is his destruction.
After a few hours the blood gradually sinks to the dependent parts of the body giving a reddish-blue discoloration, known as post-mortem discoloration, or cadaveric lividity.
Treat the other several parts of the intestines in the same way if gas be present and it is remarkable how quickly the abdomen sinks to its normal level.
The weary and all forspent twopenny postman sinks beneath a load of delicate embarrassments, not his own.
He can joke and chat with his master with an easy freedom that never passes beyond the bounds of respect and never sinks into servility.
As to the latter, everybody knows a stoop in the shoulders sinks a man in public and private estimation.
Fou, when the pulse, although pressed hard, sinks under the finger.
On all sides the ground slopes from it, but on the north it sinks so rapidly, as to give it the protection of a bold breastwork.
Bushed as with a hedgerow, the road sinks into the drift, to appear again on the far side, cutting its way between a rough-edged turf upon which geese and goats are browsing.
But like all things, good or bad, it came to an end, and as the autumn sun grew vertical, the head of the column passed down into another great plain which sinks northwards into the Beer Vlei.
She sinks into a chair, turning her back upon him, and covering her face with her hands; her shoulders heaving.
It sinks into the depths of the soul of the religious, and exalts the strong constructive will like a divine power.
In the corner stood a tree, that slowly sinks before our eyes as if it were sinking in water.
Eleanor sinks down on the soft couch, looking somewhat wistfully through the open door of the barn.
Lady MacDonald sinks gracefully back among the cushions, her head poised on one side--she always holds it so.
Eleanor sinks on the sofa, the reaction leaving her faint and powerless to speak.
Eleanor sinks into a chair, slowly unwinds her veil, and flings her hat impatiently upon the sofa.
Eleanor sinks on her knees, and buries her head on Rover's shaggy coat.
He points to a chair, but she sinks on the edge of the sofa, too agitated to notice her proximity to the huge mastiff.
Mrs. Grebby sinks on to the seat in the porch, and stares at him open-mouthed.
She breaks off into bitter sobbing and sinks on the step.
She looks so pretty that her heart sinks at the thought that it is Philip, not Carol, for whom she has prepared.
Then she sinks back in a low chair, wondering how to kill time until he returns.
It is only a string of her guitar which has broken, and she sinks back into the old attitude despairingly.
A great red sun that is warm and kind sinks behind the golden trees, rich with autumnal tints, as Philip and Eleanor drive up to "Lyndhurst," on Richmond Terrace.
The soft twilight gradually creeps over this summer world, and the great red sunsinks down in its sea of fire behind the trees.
Her tired head sinks like a weary bird--sinks on his breast.
We know that they are destitute of almost every thing save mere food and arms, and that every month sinks them deeper and deeper in destitution and misery.
So sinksthe sun: but he could not desire the end of a great day.
The old shaft runs first horizontally for some two miles, and then sinksin two shafts to a depth of some two hundred and thirty fathoms.
Hark, the coffin sinks down with a dull, sullen sound, And the ropes rattle over the sleep of the dead.
Her banner falls and she sinks lifeless on the ground.
When he sees the boy advancing, he hastens to meet him with open arms, and embracing him passionately sinks down with him quite exhausted.
Man is made of filth, and for a time wades in filth, and produces filth, and sinks back into filth, till at last he fouls the boots of his own posterity.
Zeus salutes thee in the glory Wherein the denizens of heaven regard him, When in Saturnia's arms he sinks to rest?
He must prepare him for the fray, But soon his wearied hand sinks low; Inured the gentle lyre to play, It ne'er has strung the deadly bow.
And he finds a seat and sinks into it as if he intended growing there till next harvest.
Proprietary interest sinks its roots deep into the motives that impel to action.
He sinks into himself, disgusted and outraged, and becomes wholly indifferent to the subsequent phases of the lesson.
They are only to dress and live to please them: and love, even innocent love, soon sinks into lasciviousness when the exercise of a duty is sacrificed to its indulgence.
Only, where the superfluent lake, the spongy putrescence, 10 Sinksmost murkily flushed, descends most profoundly the bottom.
She sinks back into her chair with a proud languor, and closes her mouth resolutely.
But Mrs. Talbot, covering her face with her hands, turns aside and sinks into a chair.
Florence winces, and sinks back upon the seat as though unable to sustain an upright position any longer.
What Windyridge will be to me when her sun sinks behind the hill I will not try to realise.
The percentage of run-on lines is a little lower, but seldom sinks for more than a scene below 30 per cent.
A few hours before death the muscular power is no longer capable of maintaining him in that posture, and he sinks backward.
If the progress of the complaint has been slow, and regular, the patient sinks into a state of torpor, and dies without suffering great distress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
