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Example sentences for "submerge"

Lexicographically close words:
submachine; submarginal; submarine; submarines; submaxillary; submerged; submergence; submerging; submersed; submersible
  1. And the irony which poured from the girl's virgin lips, before that simple priest, was like a flood of mire with which she sought to submerge her rival.

  2. It was the Republic itself which its adversaries were seeking to submerge beneath a flood of abominations.

  3. If again obliged to submerge before regaining her base she would be compelled to rest helplessly on the bottom of the sea, since her underwater propulsion powers were almost nil.

  4. For the U-boat had suddenly commenced to submerge once more, the steep diving angle indicating that the action was not entirely voluntary on the part of her nerve-racked pirate crew.

  5. His craft was sighted by a British destroyer, however, off the English coast and he had to submerge to escape the fire of the destroyer's guns.

  6. A vessel on our port bow, sir," declared Dick, who before the submarine could submerge her periscope had glanced into the object-bowl.

  7. In the foreground is the periscope of the attacking submarine trying to submerge before she is hit.

  8. One of his liveliest adventures, however, occurred when attempting to submerge suddenly during a heavy sea on the appearance of a destroyer.

  9. But this same movement of subsidence will tend to submerge the area whence the sediment is derived, and thus diminish the supply, whilst the downward movement continues.

  10. When she disappears into the waters after the breaking of the tabu, the lake is sometimes drained in order to recover her; the father then appears and threatens to submerge the whole district.

  11. The waters often submerge a town, now seen below the waves--the town of Is in Armorica (Le Braz, i.

  12. During this examination I had assumed that, as a matter of course, my proposition to submerge the cable was in the General's mind.

  13. He wondered if Dalrymple would ever submerge his pride enough to come to him for money.

  14. He must make his future exceptionally full so that it might submerge the past of which he couldn't speak without embarrassment.

  15. Every wave did not submerge me, but most of them did, and I felt that it was only a question of a few moments more how long I could hold on before trusting myself to swimming to leeward.

  16. Nobody, certainly, fancied that he was pushing, but there was constant eddying, and deep waves of people rolled towards the procession from afar and threatened to submerge it.

  17. From all parts the swelling human waves beat against the frail chariot, and at times threatened to submerge it.

  18. Being left alone, for the dog had followed him, my nervousness increased tenfold, and thinking at last that the rising tide was about to submerge the ledge on which I stood, I tried in my fright to climb the cliff.

  19. Instead, they normally submerge by slipping quietly below the surface, often remaining in view only a few feet down and leaving a series of tracks or swirls on the surface as they move their tail flukes.

  20. When they are surfacing from a deeper dive, however, they surface at a steeper angle, blow, submerge the blowholes, and then arch the back and dorsal fin high into the air before beginning another long dive.

  21. Either Mr. Rowe is fortunate to be blessed with a most superiorly skilled receptorman or he is gifted with an awesome ability to submerge his total being in the role he plays.

  22. Even with projector intensity set high we can't totally submerge in the character's identity because that specially conditioned part of our minds won't submit.

  23. Fortunately, however, the surface of the sound was like a polished floor and there were no swells to submerge her.

  24. Europe has nothing like these glaciers which overflow the Alaskan valleys and submerge the hills, for many of them contain more ice than the whole of Switzerland.

  25. So that, most times, you felt logically lost; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.

  26. But if it be withal a confused unintelligible flood of utterance, threatening to submerge all known landmarks of thought, and drown the world and you!

  27. As soon as we have gone I want you to submerge just to the edge of the periscope and remain there until you see us returning.

  28. In that case you will, of course, submerge at once, and then, making a detour, return to approximately the same spot.

  29. True," said Lord Hastings, "but if we submerge she is likely to escape us unless we use our searchlight.

  30. We'll remain on the surface until after he has been buried, then we'll submerge and continue our course.

  31. We'll have to submerge at once, sir," he said.

  32. We may as well submerge right here and then advance," said Lord Hastings.

  33. It had been Lord Hastings' intention to submerge immediately the torpedo had been launched, but so great was his confidence that this torpedo had gone home, that he allowed the submarine to remain on the surface.

  34. We shall not submerge until our prisoner has left us.

  35. We may as well submerge here," said Lord Hastings, "for every foot we advance on the surface of the water is putting us in the way of hitting a German mine.

  36. True," replied his commander, "but once out of the canal we will be safe enough, for we can submerge to a greater depth and continue under water until we are safe.

  37. The next move was to be up to Fritz, and it was fairly certain he would do one of two things--submerge and make off, or remain on the surface and begin to shell us.

  38. Their general practice, of course, was to submerge in the daytime and run on the surface, charging batteries, during the night.

  39. The next thing to do is to ballast the boat by pouring melted lead into her hull to make her sink deep enough in the water to balance her and to make her submerge entirely when water is let into her ballast tank.

  40. If she is at rest and the captain wants her to sink he must either start her engines or else be content to simply submerge her on an even keel.

  41. A number of empty tanks were so fixed in the vessel that when the pilot wanted to submerge it he could let the water into them, and when he wanted to rise to the surface again he could pump the water out with a hand force-pump.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "submerge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baptize; bury; cascade; cataract; cave; cover; decline; deluge; dip; dive; douse; drench; droop; drown; duck; engulf; float; flood; flop; founder; immerse; inundate; lapse; lour; lower; merge; overflow; overrun; overwhelm; plop; plump; plunge; rain; sag; settle; sink; slop; slosh; slouch; sluice; slump; soak; sound; souse; spill; steep; submerge; subside; surface; swag; swamp; sweep; well; whelm