On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Sunk. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as ruined or undone and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Sunk meaning
- past participle of sink
- past of sink
Synonyms of Sunk
Using Sunk
- The main meaning on this page is: past participle of sink | past of sink
- Useful related words include: done for, ruined, undone, washed-up.
- In the example corpus, sunk often appears in combinations such as: sunk in, sunk to, have sunk.
Context around Sunk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sunk
- In this selection, "sunk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ship, titanic, destroyer, off, james and cost stand out and add context to how "sunk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 500 investors sunk a total and and subsequently sunk. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sunk" sits close to words such as advancements, attachment and benin, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sunk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But I think that ship has sailed (and subsequently sunk). (10 words)
Both Syrian vessels were sunk, and two merchant ships were mistakenly hit and sunk. (14 words)
But up until this point, when ships sunk they went down all in one. (14 words)
Character matters, if you cannot get people of character into politics, the society is sunk and that is where we are now and it needs the urgency of this moment to begin to hold people in public office accountable for their behaviour. (42 words)
But the single cut that appears most merited, from a place where many billions of previous dollars have been sunk, is the $2 billion reduction for mass transit, down to a “mere” $5.7 billion for building new lines. (39 words)
A year later, at the second TIF, which attracted two hundred thousand visitors, while everything was running normally on the afternoon of September 27th, the fair sunk into darkness due to a power outage. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Titanic sunk, and with it sunk James Crawley and his son Patrick, the heirs to the Downton Abbey estate.
The economy would not have sunk as much if we had more capacity to keep workers healthy and consumers confident, but it would have sunk.
The sunk cost fallacy is the irrational tendency to continue investing time, money, or effort in some losing endeavor (like an unhappy relationship) based on the investment we’ve already “sunk” into it.
Although the enemy ship was hit and sunk, the captain of a British submarine claimed to have fired a torpedo simultaneously and sunk the ship.
Both Syrian vessels were sunk, and two merchant ships were mistakenly hit and sunk.
She was the first ship sunk by a nuclear submarine outside of accidents, and only the second ship sunk by a submarine since World War II.
V, pp. 156-160 One Japanese cruiser and one destroyer were sunk and one cruiser damaged, against one US destroyer sunk with one light cruiser and one destroyer damaged.
According to the indictment, 5,500 investors sunk a total of $452m into GTV, which Mr Guo claimed was worth $2bn.
And there were wild scenes as Koepka sunk a superb hole-in-one on Sunday.
As per experts, the cracks were developed because parts of the land had appeared to have sunk, triggering a crisis that resembles the situation in another Himalayan town, Joshimath in Uttrakhand.
At least 25 Palestinians were aboard the vessel that tragically sunk off the Syrian coast, having departed from Minyeh in Lebanon carrying around 150 passengers, The New Arab reported.
A whale spotted near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka has been confirmed dead and will be sunk off Osaka Bay.
A year later, at the second TIF, which attracted two hundred thousand visitors, while everything was running normally on the afternoon of September 27th, the fair sunk into darkness due to a power outage.
British cargo ship Verity has sunk off the coast of Germany with several people reported missing.
But beyond the trick-play snafus and defensive lapses, what really sunk Michigan was two pick-sixes thrown by McCarthy—one in the first quarter, and one in that wild third.
But I think that ship has sailed (and subsequently sunk).
But the single cut that appears most merited, from a place where many billions of previous dollars have been sunk, is the $2 billion reduction for mass transit, down to a “mere” $5.7 billion for building new lines.
But up until this point, when ships sunk they went down all in one.
By 2021, that figure had sunk to 71%, and it's continued to decline, according to registration data gathered by S&P.
Character matters, if you cannot get people of character into politics, the society is sunk and that is where we are now and it needs the urgency of this moment to begin to hold people in public office accountable for their behaviour.
Common combinations with sunk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sunk in 43×
- sunk to 20×
- have sunk 19×
- and sunk 16×
- sunk into 15×
- sunk and 12×
- sunk the 11×
- had sunk 11×
- sunk by 10×
- be sunk 10×