submerge

Example Sentences

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"But they are really flat yet prone to human-caused subsidence, so sustained sea level rise could submerge them really fast."

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

The implication of Zandi’s research is that the national economy would submerge under the waves if either of these two gigantic state economies were to falter.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025

If Greenland’s ice continues to melt, rising seas will submerge their homes and farms, like those of the Norse.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025

They had been opposing plans to build the Gangtuo dam and hydropower plant, which would displace several villages and submerge ancient monasteries with sacred relics.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

Over the next two hours we submerge ourselves in finding the sums of infinite geometric series, calculating iterate functions, and expanding powers of binomials.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen