sink in

Are you letting that enthusiasm sink in, or are you trying not to dance before you get into the end zone like Russ?

Footage on local media show the collapsed part of the building completely sunken in, with large slabs of concrete sticking out.

On 16 November 1916, it struck a German mine off the island of Kea and sank in less than an hour.

I think your mind doesn’t process it because it’s not really sinking in that this is what’s really happening.

In virtually every case, they are sinking in the polls and facing incoming fire from all directions, and now seem to hang by a thread over a dark electoral abyss.