- present participle of drown.
drowning
Example Sentences
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"Our mission, and our tasking is to rescue those women, children and men in danger of drowning," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Spirit was Boeing’s sole-source supplier for nearly all the products Spirit sold to it, and Spirit itself was drowning in losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
England's National Child Mortality Database found that black children were over three times more at risk of drowning as white children between 2019 and 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Some of the medical and scientific skepticism is a result of people feeling adrift in a rapidly changing world and drowning in competing information.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
The more she wailed about Pong drowning, the less likely the villagers would listen to Nok and start searching the riverbanks.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
