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Example sentences for "sunken"

Lexicographically close words:
sunflowers; sung; sunglasses; sunk; sunke; sunless; sunlight; sunlighted; sunlike; sunlit
  1. Harold, who could not keep from fastening his gaze on the white, sunken cheek and hollow eyes of his dying comrade.

  2. The suffering girl was pale and attenuated, and her sunken eyes were wild and bright with the fire of delirium.

  3. For generations after the destruction of Port Royal, it was affirmed that the spires and housetops of the sunken city could be discerned on a clear day through the waters of the harbor.

  4. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning.

  5. Did I ever sit beside her on a ledge of stone overlooking a sunken garden?

  6. We ascended the steps of the stone pavilion, and sat down in an arch like a balcony over the sunken garden.

  7. The relief may not project at all from the original surface of the material, as in the sunken reliefs of the Egyptians, and may be nearly flat, as in the Panathenaic procession of the Parthenon.

  8. At dusk the steamer appeared to be rocking helplessly in a narrow sunken place which never had an outlet for us; the shadows of the seas erect over us did not move away, but their ridges pitched at changing angles.

  9. At one side of the house was a terrace hedged with box and evergreen; beyond that a sunken garden.

  10. The Lake system greatly simplifies the work of search for sunken ships, the vessels being able in a few hours’ time to search over regions which would have taken months in the old method.

  11. The sunken eyes were lifted for a moment.

  12. A black rage settled on the old man's sunken features.

  13. His beard had lost its sunburned character and grown jet black, his face, and particularly his hands, were pale to transparence, his eyes burned too brightly in their sunken sockets.

  14. He passed the conservatory and the sunken gardens, flamboyant with purple-and-gold pansies; he dawdled over the aviary and the bear cages.

  15. The chief guest closed his sunken eyes, as if exhausted, and leaned the back of his head against the stanchion of the awning.

  16. His face was a ghastly gray, his eyes were sunken and his blackened lips hung agape.

  17. His head drooped forward until his unshaven chin rested upon his sunken chest.

  18. When I opened my eyes again I looked for the sunken garden; but except for a few very prim-looking flower-beds the grounds in front of the house consisted entirely of a lawn, round which the drive took a broad circular sweep.

  19. There's a lovely sunken garden just in front of the house which I want you to notice.

  20. He raised his face from her lap at last; and she saw that it was sunken like the countenance of one long dead.

  21. A tiny trout, hooked through the head and thrown back into the pool, will sometimes race in desperate circles, battering helplessly against the bank, the bottom of the pool, the sunken logs.

  22. It was found by Tony Foyle down by the marble statue in the sunken garden.

  23. There was included in its scenes a "Masque of the Marble Harp," in which the whole school was to be grouped about the fountain in the sunken garden.

  24. England's best defense against an invading foe is her sunken roads.

  25. The snail had nearly exhausted its ammunition; each new broadside took more and more time and was less and less effective; while the ants had unlimited resources, and could make bridges of their sunken armies.

  26. The gloom on her brow is that of a gathering thunder-storm, lightnings play in her small, grey, sunken eyes.

  27. Her breath gives out, her sunken breast heaves, her eyes flash.

  28. The leader thrust out his hands, and at that moment the ship struck a sunken ledge of ice.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sunken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    buried; cavernous; concave; cupped; debased; depressed; downcast; drowned; engulfed; fallen; flooded; hollow; immersed; incurved; inundated; low; lowered; prostrate; reduced; retiring; retreating; submarine; submerged; sunk; sunken; underground