Wondering how to use Sink in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as slump or fall.
Sink in a sentence
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Sink meaning
- To move or be moved into something.
- To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
Synonyms of Sink
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Using Sink
- The main meaning on this page is: To move or be moved into something. | To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. | To move or be moved into something.
- Useful related words include: go down, slump, come down, fall.
- Possible Dutch translations are: tot zinken brengen.
- In the example corpus, sink often appears in combinations such as: to sink, sink and, the sink.
Context around Sink
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sink
- In this selection, "sink" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kitchen, carbon, steel, lower, sanitized and deep stand out and add context to how "sink" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a carbon sink the seaweed and a heat sink and double. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sink" sits close to words such as afterward, exceed and feat, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sink
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Otherwise, this carbon is attributed to the land sink and is missing from the ocean sink. (16 words)
Bennett said she was left "on the floor, by the sink" before she "grabbed the knife off the side". (19 words)
Sink the ship involves taking turns guessing coordinates on a grid and trying to "sink" your partner's hidden ships. (20 words)
Anyone on the Hook would have only 45 to 60 minutes to get to a safe elevation, and the road would almost surely be impassible: The shaking would cause the roadway and the bridge at its base to buckle and sink as the sand beneath them liquefied. (47 words)
A social worker said that she found a broken glass mirror in the bathroom sink, expressing worry over the couple’s “lack of engagement and reluctance to work with professionals” and a frequent and strong smell of cannabis in the house. (41 words)
At least half the current agricultural land on the planet, more likely two-thirds of it, has to be ‘rewilded’ in order to restore the world’s principal carbon sink and to preserve the biodiversity on which the entire ecosystem depends. (41 words)
And even though it didn’t seem relations could sink lower than that, the Opposition can’t be faulted for not giving it their best shot! (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
Sink the ship involves taking turns guessing coordinates on a grid and trying to "sink" your partner's hidden ships.
And after determining that the giant porcelain kitchen sink “was cool, but too raggedy to keep,” Ms. Li said, they rescued a stainless-steel sink from the debris in the backyard.
Otherwise, this carbon is attributed to the land sink and is missing from the ocean sink.
Michael Ingham sees in The Cantos an American tradition of experimental literature writing about it, "These works include everything but the kitchen sink, and then add the kitchen sink".
Additionally, the rear of the monitor is equipped with a perforated pattern, called lattice design, to act as a heat sink and double the surface area for cooling.
Afraid I was about to see a body wedged against the sink, I stepped in. I looked around, turned off the light, backed out quickly, and closed the door.
After a period of feeling lucky to be alive, many people who suffer such injuries sink into a dangerous period of frustration and depression, Woodruff said.
After the 3-point contest, students made their way onto the court trying to be the first to sink a half-court shot.
All some of us are just doing is sit down and watch the depths to which wannabe coupists like Mr Sege and e-hoodlums will sink our football, nay sport.
And BTW: commonsense always more valuable than dollars and cents, nothing I’ve seen and heard, read or shared suggests to me that Digicel is about to sink.
And even though it didn’t seem relations could sink lower than that, the Opposition can’t be faulted for not giving it their best shot!
An investigation found that the home breast pump was cleaned in a household sink, sanitized and sometimes assembled while still moist.
Anyone on the Hook would have only 45 to 60 minutes to get to a safe elevation, and the road would almost surely be impassible: The shaking would cause the roadway and the bridge at its base to buckle and sink as the sand beneath them liquefied.
As I finally reached the middle of week three, a sense of immense relief overtook me as I watched the needle of testosterone sink deep into my thigh.
A social worker said that she found a broken glass mirror in the bathroom sink, expressing worry over the couple’s “lack of engagement and reluctance to work with professionals” and a frequent and strong smell of cannabis in the house.
As well as being a carbon sink, the seaweed could also be grown and sold as feedstocks for industrial processes which would be an alternative to fossil fuel resources, Mr Auckland said.
At least half the current agricultural land on the planet, more likely two-thirds of it, has to be ‘rewilded’ in order to restore the world’s principal carbon sink and to preserve the biodiversity on which the entire ecosystem depends.
A woman leader in Umuchime, Mrs Ijeoma Adim, lamented that cows had destroyed the only source of drinking water in the community, and called on Government to sink water boreholes for the locals.
Being an independent studio in the mid-2010s, one notable flop always had the potential to sink the entire outfit.
Bennett said she was left "on the floor, by the sink" before she "grabbed the knife off the side".
Common combinations with sink
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to sink 44×
- sink and 22×
- the sink 22×
- sink in 19×
- sink the 13×
- kitchen sink 13×
- heat sink 10×
- sink their 8×
- and sink 7×
- sink with 7×