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Example sentences for "submerging"

Lexicographically close words:
submarines; submaxillary; submerge; submerged; submergence; submersed; submersible; submersibles; submersion; submiss
  1. Ram him at all hazards if he is submerging when we reach him," commanded Lieutenant Commander Darrin.

  2. The shadow was much less distinct now, for the sea pest was submerging to greater depth.

  3. Submerging to greater depth the wily Hun had glided away to safety.

  4. When within one hundred miles of Gibraltar he was again discovered by British destroyers, but again managed to escape by submerging his craft.

  5. Again submerging his vessel Captain Hersing kept it down for another day, and when he again came to the surface he saw that the fleets had moved away.

  6. Such a rampant proclamation of self will and enthronement of pure egotism, flying in the face of the solemn and all submerging order of the universe, is the very essence and climax of immorality and irreligiousness.

  7. The Severn leaped its banks in 1483, submerging the adjacent lowlands, and drowning hundreds.

  8. March 28, the levees broke at two points on the eastern shore, between Arkansas City and Memphis, Tennessee, submerging many thousands of acres of land, and sweeping southeastward to the Yazoo River.

  9. The water swept rapidly southward, submerging almost the entire region between the Yazoo and Mississippi.

  10. The captain smiled, as he said: "I am afraid the valve of the submerging tank will not work; I prefer running on the surface.

  11. That is the submerging tank," said the captain.

  12. In the absence of lesions it is almost impossible to say whether the individual fell in, jumped in, or was pushed in the submerging fluid.

  13. Material used to load the ship, for stability or submerging purposes.

  14. Off here alone on the ridge road now, Missouri's unspeakable difference was coming over him in great submerging waves.

  15. It is like a dry ocean gradually submerging the land.

  16. Modern historians generally write as if the onslaught of the Northmen had had this unifying effect; as if it had been a great calamity, overwhelming the country for several centuries, and submerging its original life under a tide of conquest.

  17. Just before submerging the U-boat set off a couple of red-light bombs, for the purpose of attracting the attention of the crew of the destroyer, and submerged.

  18. On the floor are the levers which, when raised and moved in certain directions, fill or empty the submerging tanks.

  19. There are about a dozen openings in the boat, the chief being three Kingston valves, by means of which the submerging tanks are filled or emptied.

  20. Gaines is at the motor, Clackett is at the submerging tanks, Speake has charge of the storage batteries and compressed air, and Cassidy is here in the periscope room with us to drive the Grampus in any direction you desire.

  21. While these instructions were going forward, Gaines and Dick had gone into the motor room, Clackett and Carl had posted themselves in the place from which the submerging tanks were operated, and Speake had gone forward into the torpedo room.

  22. Day and night, if there is the slightest suspicion of the approach of the enemy, he watches on the exposed bridge on the top of the turret; for a few seconds' delay in submerging might forfeit the taking of a much coveted prize.

  23. The problem of submerging is mainly that of being able rapidly to fill the tanks.

  24. Then came the more delicate work of pumping out the submerging tanks of the wreck.

  25. He had calculated that before night the submerging tanks would be empty, then we could transfer the pumps to the engine-room and crew's quarters aft.

  26. With the water out of there and her submerging tanks, she might rise.

  27. How do you know the submerging tanks are intact and water tight?

  28. Jack felt his head rise at last from the submerging flood.

  29. A compost that has been properly prepared will not need water; but should water become needful, it must be given by partially submerging the pans.

  30. Partially submerging the pans when water is needed saves many seeds from being washed out and wasted.

  31. This Question of Louis, emerging so often as an angry confused possibility, and submerging again, has emerged now in an articulate shape.

  32. Lucky, if fortified Lines of Weissembourg, and impassibilities of Vosges Mountains, confine it to French Alsace, keep it from submerging the very heart of the country!

  33. A great wave of thankfulness rolled over Blount's head, submerging him and turning the exclamation which sprang to his lips into a pæan of rejoicing.

  34. A rapid reading of Blenkinsop's editorial confirmed the fear, and the reader's lips grew dry and his breath came quickly when he realized that the submerging wave of thankfulness had risen only to be driven back.

  35. Damming and submerging it 175 feet deep would enhance its beauty by forming a crystal-clear lake.

  36. After this grand show the cloud-sea rose higher, wreathing the Dome, and for a short time submerging it, making darkness like night, and I began to think of looking for a camp ground in a cluster of dwarf pines.

  37. The veil of disaster, which was submerging Paris, now seemed to grow thicker under the gusts of the icy north wind.

  38. Of course, he knows nothing about the apparatus for submerging the boat or making it dive.

  39. The rest crowd about me and ask questions while I handle the submerging machinery.

  40. It is incapable of submerging itself even for a little distance, except by gaining sufficient momentum from a plunge headlong from some distance in the air.

  41. This is obtained only in shallow water, by submerging the fore half of the body and dabbling and probing amongst the mud and weeds.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "submerging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deciduous; declining; descending; down; downhill; downward; drooping; falling; foundering; plummeting; plunging; sagging; setting; sinking; submerging; subsiding; tottering; tumbledown