- present participle of submerge.
submerging
Example Sentences
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“The precise mechanisms of holding one’s breath, letting air out, and submerging the body underwater are not visible in the archive,” Ms. Fernando notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Chiedza tried to climb on her cousin's shoulders, submerging her."
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
In 2022, a 30-metre-high garbage heap at a landfill in West Java's Cipayung triggered a landslide that entered a river, submerging a bridge to the neighbouring village.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees tin they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
