sunk

[US]/sʌŋk/
[UK]/sʌŋk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. concave
vi. to descend

Phrases & Collocations

sunken ship

feeling sunk

sunk cost

sunk into depression

Example Sentences

He was sunk in deep thought.

She just sat there, sunk in thought.

twenty of their ships were sunk or taken.

Now we're sunk .

The wind has sunk down.

They say “thunk” on the analogy of “sunk”.

salvage taken from a ship that had sunk in the river.

His eyes have sunk in.

He was sunk in apathy after his failure.

Parents often wonder what effect find sunking thumb sucking or sunking sucking on a pacifier might have on the baby their baby's teeth.

He has sunk half his fortune into a new business undertaking.

Your boat was sunk by a swordfish? Pull the other one!.

rails fixed in place with screws sunk below the surface of the wood.

the place had sunk back into its wonted quiet.

Her voice had sunk even lower as she went on.

the boy was standing in an attitude of despair, his chin sunk on his chest.

Kelly stood watching, her hands sunk deep into her pockets.

the weeds at the bottom gently bending down the stream, shaken by the watery wind, still planted where their seeds had sunk, but erelong to die and go down likewise;

Real-world Examples

I'm glad that talk really sunk in.

Source: Our Day Season 2

Harry felt as though his stomach had sunk through the dusty carpet.

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It's going to be sunk into your conscience.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

Could you tell why it sunk?

Source: English little tyrant

This quirk is called the sunk cost fallacy.

Source: Crash Course: Business in the Workplace

A 300-foot hole would surely have sunk the Titanic in a matter of minutes.

Source: The Secrets of the Titanic

But isn't Alantis supposed to have sunk in the water, not in the sand?

Source: Mysteries of the Universe

Russia later admitted that it had sunk, although it blamed the loss on a fire.

Source: The Economist - Weekly News Highlights

So we have " sink" , " sunk" , " sank" .

Source: Elliot teaches British English.

What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.

Source: New Concept English. British Edition. Book Three (Translation)

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