drown

Example Sentences

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This isn’t about drowning vegetables in dairy until they forget who they are.

From Salon

And so much of his brain was drowning in thoughts like, All those times I said the Pledge of Allegiance at school—doesn’t that count for anything?

From Literature

A mock drowning in the pool, floating face down in the water as his mother does a butterfly stroke back and forth right next to him.

From Salon

The heart, which came from another young boy who drowned, arrived "burned by frostbite," the child's family's lawyer, Francesco Petruzzi, said.

From BBC

She simply drowns them out with the sound machine as she drifts into a deep sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal