sink
Example Sentences
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The dollar sank, pushing up retail prices in America and causing a run on Treasury bonds that flattened mortgage lending and battered corporate finances.
These results point to beaches as a potentially important but overlooked "sink" in the global movement of plastic pollution.
From Science Daily
“The appointments of new CEOs follow long tenure periods under the previous management, and therefore we see possibilities for a combination of strategy resets, asset impairments, and ‘kitchen sinking’ guidance,” says analyst Craig Wong-Pan.
The former Manchester City player and tournament's top-scorer looked distraught as it began to sink in what he had done.
From BBC
For those of us sinking in email quicksand, a curated list instead of a wall of new messages is compelling.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
