sink in
Example Sentences
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"But you know, you'll get 100 positive comments and it doesn't sink in but then you get one negative comment and it feels personal and it hurts."
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Let that ratio sink in: For every dollar Apple spent imagining the future, it spent nearly four dollars buying back its own past.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
Back in Iran, a sense of the inevitable had begun to sink in for many there.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
A few days later the magnitude of the assignment began to sink in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
He waited for the information to sink in.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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