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sunken

suhng kuhn

  • v  fall or descend to a lower place or level
  • v  cause to sink
  • v  pass into a specified state or condition
  • v  go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
  • v  descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
  • v  appear to move downward
  • v  fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
  • v  fall or sink heavily
  • v  embed deeply
  • s  having a sunken area
    hunger gave their faces a sunken look

  • The sunken ship, which Madrid suspects was Spanish, has been sharply disputed since April, when Odyssey filed claim to the wreckage and then hauled up and moved to an .
  • At age 95, his face is sunken and his white hair a mere wisp.
  • Might these be the ruins of the lost continent of Atlantis? Eager explorers certainly thought so, trumpeting this grid off the coast of Africa as streets in the mythical sunken .
News & Articles

  • Nigerian cook trapped for 3 days in sunken ship
    A cook says he “prayed about a hundred times” while he spent more than 60 hours trapped inside a sunken tugboat off Nigeria, before making it out alive.
    June 12, 2013 - Fox News
  • Pulitzer Winner Kicks Off Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
    Two Pulitzer Winners, Obama's Inaugural Poet Part Of Hill-Stead Series Two Pulitzer Prize winners. A former U.S. poet laureate. President Obama's 2013 Inaugural poet. A "poet of witness" who champions human rights. This year's Sunken Garden Poetry Prize-winner, and students whose "fresh voices" have enlivened state poetry competitions. That is the impressive line-up for the 21st Sunken Garden ...
    June 12, 2013 - Hartford Courant
  • Photography show installed in sunken warship
    (CNN) -- Diving 27 meters underwater, the light turns a deep, hazy blue. Emerging from the darkness, three ballerinas in white tutus stretch their legs on the deck of a sunken military ship.
    June 12, 2013 - First Coast News
Quotes

  • Jon Lester in USA Today
    I don't think it really has sunken in yet, and I don't think it will sink in until tomorrow when I get on the mound,Lester said Sunday.
  • Pope Benedict XVI in Sydney Morning Herald
    Benedict spoke against war and violence, deploring that too often the faces of children were "sunken by hunger and illness, disfigured by pain and hopelessness".
  • Zayed Khan in Hindu
    When you train as a student, you go till a maximum of 35-40 feet. But when we trained for the film, we had to dive down to 85-90 feet deep enough to get actual shots of weed and sunken ships. It was scary,Zayed said.

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