How To Use Sink in In A Sentence
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I wished I could sink into the water, the way the cephalopod was doing.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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I swallowed my tears and washed my face in the small sink in the adjacent lavatory.
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He paused to allow his words to sink in.
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I felt my fangs sink into flesh and I heard him scream.
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His laughter was spiteful and mirthless, and he took his time, content to let his presence sink in.
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I felt her nails sink into my wrist.
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Will my spirit fly upward to a happy heaven? or shall I sink into the bottomless pit, an outcast from a God of infinite love?
American Indian Stories
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Drowsiness overcame her, and she crumpled to the floor, letting herself sink into dark oblivion.
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He waits for this to sink in, and I oblige by widening my eyes and licking my chapped lips.
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Ironically, when the teeth of the plot sink in, the introduction of the supernatural nemesis, Ghost Machine begins to lag.
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Voices raised with excitement came from a fourth group, clustered round the sink in the corner of the room.
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It took a moment for the implications of what she was saying to sink in.
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Most fluid-filled products permit a high degree of immersion, allowing the body to sink into the surface as the surface conforms to bony prominences.
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What could be nicer than to shimmy into the Caramel Room, sink into a lovely armchair and match a cake to your purchase?
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When I got to my locker , guilt had begun to sink in.
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It did eventually sink into a murky mire of sickening sentimentality that left me feeling nauseous, but hey, that's just me.
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The next morning, while wading a long stretch of the river, I begin to sink in sand.
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These toys will be around for a year or two, then fade/slide/sink into oblivion.
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He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.
Underworld
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Slowly, his wings came back onto his body and clung closely against his back, letting it sink in.
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Anything anybody said to him to try and buck him up wouldn't sink in.
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DAVID SMART, ELIZABETH SMART'S UNCLE: You know, it didn't really sink in until last night when I was able to hug Elizabeth and just tell her how much we loved her and cared about her.
CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2003
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Like young Washington, Mr. Bhaer ` couldn't tell a lie ', so he gave the somewhat vague reply that he believed they did some - times, in a tone that made Mr. March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, look - ing as if the ` precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour.
Little Women
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Royal Navy minehunter HMS Berkeley saved two men from drowning when their fishing boat began to sink in waters off Torbay.
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Woodburners will only throw out heat so far and no further, so the Hudson's Bay blanket has been my best friend and I have mastered the three-way fold cocoon-like enwrapment which has all kept me warm enough to sink into the oblivion of a good book.
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His head flashed up, huge jaws distended, fangs gleaming, to sink into the slender, silken-hosed ankle above the tan low-cut shoes.
CHAPTER XXVII
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But in densely built cities, about three-quarters of the rainfall fails to sink into the ground or evaporate.
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In succession, the paper calculated and analyzed size effect of heat sink in the low - temperature measurement.
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Ashcroft's immediate response to the attacks was to sink into a dark Orwellian morass of secret detentions, warrantless wiretaps, and eavesdropping on lawyers.
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A second later he bit down and allowed his fangs to sink into my soft flesh.
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Perhaps if we say it often enough the real meaning will sink in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The birds kept calling as they shuffled about, and I tried my best to let the sound sink into my brain.
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Not that I should die, but perhaps sink into a state of betweenity, neither well nor ill, in which I should observe nothing, and be very miserable besides.
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
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For the most part, they still work, but an unfortunate side effect of this is that they tend to sink into an undifferentiated mass.
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A study found that a man's self-esteem is often directly connected with his outward appearance. Thin and small men often regard themselves as punny and easily sink into depression.
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Rub the cream on your skin and let it sink in.
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And, thirdly, which is the most important point of all, did the same mill-pond contract in its dimensions by gradual and imperceptible stages, or did it sink into the present narrow channel of the Apple-pie, by any violent and sudden disruption of its banks?
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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And even if it could land safely upright, might it not sink into the dust, to be trapped in lunar quicksand, never to escape?
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I won't sink into pretension and argue that it is an art form, but I will say that it's far more than an omnium-gatherum of detritus, as its mocking gallery insists it is.
Adam Hanft: Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life
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It's a bit too - "Her words broke off as she saw Alex standing by the sink in his Cossack costume.
KISS AN ANGEL
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Afterward, they gather around the fireplace to drink beer, tell stories, and woozily stroll back to their cabins to sink into cozy loft beds.
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Afterward, they gather around the fireplace to drink beer, tell stories, and woozily stroll back to their cabins to sink into cozy loft beds.
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Maybe the positivity is starting to sink in already.
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I heard what she said,but it did not sink in till some time later.
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Hundreds of offshore wind turbines could be suffering from a design flaw that makes them sink into the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having slain those Kurus -- our kinsmen, that is, our friends and well-wishers, -- we shall have to sink in hell, beads (hanging) downwards.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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And without me the school might sink into torpor. Passive acceptance would be the order of the day.
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Don't allow yourself to sink into grief; it can do no good.
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They are big comfortable armchairs - the sort you should sink into with a glass of whisky.
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Unfortunately, I find it plausible that the case for free trade cannot sink in when it is presented in nonmathematical form.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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When this type of spear stuck into a shield it would sink in up to the barbs, bend, and make it very difficult to remove.
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The miles upon miles of open gray-green country, treeless, hedgeless, houseless, swoop toward one another with the strangest sinuosities and rifts and knobs of volcanic earth, till at last they sink in faint mists, only to rise again in pink and blue distances, so far off, so pale and aërial, that they can scarcely be distinguished from the atmosphere itself.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
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Those who let a person to sink in things, is a good start.
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The implications of Labour's defeat were beginning to sink in.
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They can sink into leather recliners with cup holders and watch TV, browse the bookshelves and enjoy a non-alcoholic beverage.
Fun for the Whole Family: The Long Wait in Line
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It does not encourage religious authorities to sink into meditation, as do the Hindu fakirs.
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For under-sink installation it is essential to use the purpose-designed hot tap supplied by the heater manufacturer.
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Using pesto on tortellini is a bit tricky, because of all the nooks and crannies that lumps of your pesto can sink into.
All basil, all the time..
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It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood.
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Climbing out of the glen was desperately hard work - knee-deep snow was the norm and occasionally I'd sink into drifts up to my thighs.
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The implication took a while to sink in.
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For under-sink installation it is essential to use the purpose-designed hot tap supplied by the heater manufacturer.
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Even as the excitement could sink in, Samba dancers, flown in all the way from Rio de Janeiro, pepped up the mood with a flashy and scintillating performance, wiggling every inch of their bodies.
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Such a supramundane observer would find himself entering into a new era, in which all his previous knowledge would sink into oblivion.
The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity
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Hundreds of offshore wind turbines could be suffering from a design flaw that makes them sink into the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems that the so-called new theory is likely to sink into oblivion.
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With the first frosts of approaching winter, the surface waters are chilled, increasing in density, and they begin to sink into and below the summer bottom layer.
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The estimate of the land sink in the coterminous US discussed previously gives a total carbon sink that is on the low side but within the uncertainty of what is implied by atmospheric inversions.
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No one can have failed to notice the metamorphosis of the humble vitreous china sink in Irish bathrooms.
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Don't allow yourself to sink into grief; it can do no good.
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Although it had enjoyed a brief flourishing under Cardinal Richelieu in the 1630s, Mazarin had allowed the navy to sink into decay.
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For under-sink installation it is essential to use the purpose-designed hot tap supplied by the heater manufacturer.
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Yet it's James they have to thank every time they sink into their armchairs to listen to their favourite classics.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, let me sink into oblivion.
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She stood at the sink in a trance, waiting for the next line in the imaginary conversation while she rinsed the mug over and over, but it wouldn't come.
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The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.
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Anything anybody said to him to try and buck him up wouldn't sink in.
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The bits no-one wanted, or which were too big and heavy to cart away would lay there to sink into the vegetation and decay slowly over the years.
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He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.
Underworld
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They must sleep in complete darkness, so many vampires go to graveyards or simply sink into the ground, to rise again when the sun sets.
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Both men are time-servers who, at a single nod from the conqueror, will sink into primitive obscurity.
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It's good to sink into a hot tub at the end of a hard day's work.
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The country seemed to sink into a depression, just as he thought it would.
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And it's also very comfortable so you can sink into the sofa and watch television.
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Sleep --" he made the soothing suggestion over and over and felt the other begin to relax, to sink into the semicoma in which he must rest for at least another day.
Star Born
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He desired not to be pinnacled, but to sink into the crowd.
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Don't allow yourself to sink into grief; it can do no good.
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Set on a rack, and while it is still warm, poke it all over with a thin skewer, and pour the thinned rose preserve over all, to let it sink in.
Toast:
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Furthermore, women are not tied to the kitchen sink in the way often caricatured by feminist writers.
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The raised hinge, or keyed area, for heatsink installation is directed towards the ram, rather than the edge of the motherboard.
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Feeling the cold steel in his hand, Mario used the wrench to loosen the bolt underneath the sink in the main bathroom of his parents' apartment.
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The Rhizocephala remain astomatous; they lose all their limbs completely, and appear as sausage-like, sack-shaped or discoidal excrescences of their host, filled with ova (Figures 59 and 60); from the point of attachment closed tubes, ramified like roots, sink into the interior of the host, twisting round its intestine, or becoming diffused among the sac-like tubes of its liver.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin
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Wood does not sink in water, it floats.
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The warning failed to sink in, and he got into trouble as a consequence.
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There were no histrionics, no climbing through the stands to greet her family and friends. Instead, Li sat calmly on her chair and let it all sink in.
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Wood does not sink in water.
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Anything anybody said to him to try and buck him up wouldn't sink in.
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The lavender oil in it makes the cream smell gorgeous but it did feel very oily and didn't sink in as well as the others.
The Sun
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I will not use the bar mix in the sink in order to mush up the vomit from the party … … there is a story in that and sadly its true … might have to write it … he he!!
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Drinking water came from the sink in the toilet, the flush of which was operated by pulling a metal hanger in the cistern.
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Bien narrer is an object of their study; and though they sometimes carry it to affectation, they never sink into inelegance, which is much the worst extreme of the two.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Hundreds of offshore wind turbines could be suffering from a design flaw that makes them sink into the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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As in the case of all algae, cells below a minimum size (about a mm or so) are effectively neutrally buoyant, which would have been extraordinarily important, as they would otherwise sink into the sub-photic zone and die.
Ancient Predator Revealed!
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Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
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Mathematical Demonstrations being built upon the im - pregnable Foundation of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only Truths that can sink into the mind of Man void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Water overflowed the sink in the kitchen.
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The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night.
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The same impurities found in the stream are also found in the lake, where the water is so saturated with salt, boracic acid, etc., that one can no more sink in it than in the water of the Great Salt lake; and I found it so saturated that after swimming in it a little while the skin all over my body was gnawed and made very sore by the acids.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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It will take a little time for the rain to sink into the dried earth.
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However grounded, liberalism depended on subjectivizing reason and objective moral principles; subjects are proclaimed “autonomous” all the while they sink into the heteronomy of market relations.
Critical Theory
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Rub the cream on your skin and let It'sink in.
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It seems that the so-called new theory is likely to sink into oblivion.
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Give it time to sink in," the medico said... I don't want it to sink in.
THE GOLDEN LION
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The darkness thickens, closes in on me, drawing me into these eyes, and my surroundings sink into oblivion.
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The implication took a while to sink in.
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We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.
Wings in the Night
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I've trained myself to it in recent years, having a horror of the way some older citizens sink into a smelly, grubby state as they age, and being determined to avoid falling into the same trap.
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I felt my heart plummet to the earth's core and sink into the scorching ball of fiery lava with an ominous plonking noise.
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Don't let yourself sink into despair.
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The seriousness of our project - to sneak into a town under a relentless military siege - began to sink in, and I shuddered.
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It is really a sad thing to see them sink into such moral degeneracy.
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The dread didn't sink in until I realised I was probably the youngest person in the theatre, with the mean age being about fifty.
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Wood does not sink in water.
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The five leisurely tracks on Sun Araw's "Off Duty/Boat Trip" (Woodsist) sink into some primordial psychedelic murk: a realm of fuzztone and stereo-panning echoes, wah-wah guitars and stray percussion, throbbing bass lines and distant, barely intelligible vocals.
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_productiveness_ is to the science of Life; and this being excluded, physiology or zoonomy would sink into chemistry, chemistry by the same process into mechanics, while mechanics themselves would lose the substantial principle, which, bending the lower extreme towards its apex, produces the organic circle of the sciences, and elevates them all into different arcs or stations of the one absolute science of Life.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
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Its good, its proactive and there's no time to sink into the mire of self doubt and hopelessness if you are expending energy (preferably on inanimate objects).
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They all sink into the lowest class of religions mendicants, or retainers; or live among their friends as drones upon the land; while the manufacturing, trading, and commercial industry that provided them with the comforts, conveniences, and elegancies of life while they were in a higher grade of service is in its turn thrown out of employment; and the whole frame of society becomes, for a time, deranged by the local diminution in the demand _for the services of men and the produce of their industry_.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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My stomach turns at the notion, but the real gravity of the situation doesn't sink in until a few minutes later.
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He desired not to be pedestalled, but to sink into the crowd.
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Like young Washington, Mr. Bhaer 'couldn't tell a lie', so he gave the somewhat vague reply that he believed they did sometimes, in a tone that made Mr. March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, looking as if the 'precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour.
Little Women
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The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.
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It's coming to the end, the factories and canneries slowly sink into the grit.
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If the book is electrotyped, the plates may turn out faulty; sometimes the type will sink in places under the enormous pressure applied in moulding.
The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
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Wind power presents too many advantages to be allowed to sink into oblivion.
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There will be no more mire and muck to sink into.
Christianity Today
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But he said "man can choose an easy road pushing aside all efforts, and can even fall to what he calls the lowest, vulgar levels and sink into the swamp of sin and dishonesty".
Euronews
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Well he will sink into oblivion after McCain landslides him so we won't be bothered any more.
Obama continues to narrow Clinton's superdelegate lead
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I felt her nails sink into my wrist.
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The full scale of the disaster has yet to sink in.
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It will take a little time for the rain to sink into the dried earth.
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This may sound fairly straightforward but, when I add that most of our work involves food, that we don't have mains electricity, and that we are snowbound for six months of the year, the insanity of it all may sink in.
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Or inspire some awful comparison bug that would cause us all to sink into a miserable heap of self-abasement?
Whoa. Wait a Second. A Decade? Really? I Didn’t Even Realize… « Looking for Roots
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Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
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In other words, astral and physical darkness bedim the soul's spiritual sight, and, leaving the realms of innocence and bliss, they sink into the vortex of the great astral world.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars
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'Bien narrer' is an object of their study; and though they sometimes carry it to affectation, they never sink into inelegance, which is much the worst extreme of the two.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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In the evenings, she hoovered up sadza and milk or cream-laden bonemeal with an expression of unadulterated bliss, and then she’d climb into one of the hessian-padded tractor tires we kept under the carport for the dogs and sink into a coma, her beauty-queen eyelashes curling up from her cheeks.
Rainbow’s End
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Although this elimination is a great accomplishment, it can be a misleading and a potentially dangerous state, since you may sink into blankmindedness.
A Commentary on A Root Text for Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra
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I let my body sink into the great white cloud of bubbles.
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Rub the cream on your skin and let it sink in.
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The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.
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In the middle of an incessant thunderstorm, with hailstones making vision almost impossible, feeling cold and hungry, 50 miles from home, the enormity of what I was letting myself in for began to sink in.
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Scotch the gloomy talk of a Japan-style Lost Decade in which we sink into decline and marinate morosely there for years.
Goldman's Cynical Assurances Notwithstanding, The Decade is Lost Already
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I felt its claws sink in my skull and shifted my head to look at it.
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If roads get too hot, the anti-skid surface of stone chippings can sink into the the melted tarmac.
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Heavy buildings, especially multistory structures that are not anchored in bedrock, can tip over or sink into soil after it liquefies.
Living on the Fault Line
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She lets her hands sink in the green pond and weave with the water movement.
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The newly opened Bobino Club in the Porta Genova neighborhood has luxe leather couches for a lounge-like vibe, which you'll be happy to sink into after indulging in their decadent aperitivo buffet of pizza and fritto misto.
The Comfort of Strangers
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Most fluid-filled products permit a high degree of immersion, allowing the body to sink into the surface as the surface conforms to bony prominences.
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And a sink in the gents' loo.
Times, Sunday Times
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This week, the wider ramifications of her condition sink in on a visit home from hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
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But some glimmer of understanding may sink in.
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O! into what dwarfishness the morality, and the spiritual and elevated attainments of most Christians sink in the presence of such men!
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
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After Saturday's late disappointment left his team's tilt for the title threatening to sink into quicksand, the Arsenal manager, having
WN.com - Articles related to England boss Fabio Capello: My team won't be bored or turn to booze in South Africa
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Africans from the diaspora are returning, many with money and training to sink into opportunities that would not come their way in the West.
Times, Sunday Times
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Touring skis are light yet wide enough not to sink in deep snow.
Times, Sunday Times
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How low will it sink in its attacks on progressives and public spending?
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It took time for the significance of what Wales had done to sink in.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of offshore wind turbines could be suffering from a design flaw that makes them sink into the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Numidia, which is your own property, to sink into ruin [57] through villainy and the slaughter of our family.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
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Touring skis are light yet wide enough not to sink in deep snow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The US is entering uncharted waters, which hide shoals that could cause its economy to sink into a recession and with it stocks and shares plummeting into the deep.
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The thought of being so isolated was starting to sink in; tiny bites of homesickness already gnawed at me, and I'd only been away from home for about three weeks.
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Socrates saw the name sink into Ralphie’s shoulders.
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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The torpedo broke the destroyer's back, causing her to sink in 15 seconds and thus consigning hundreds of exhausted troops and matelots to their deaths.
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The boots provided an unexpected benefit: they acted as a kind of snowshoe when there was deep snow, and the large, heavy animals didn't sink in as far.
The Plains of Passage
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The warning failed to sink in, and he got into trouble as a consequence.
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Everyone's going out and leaving me on my own tonight, and I have no idea whether I'll happily find something pleasant to wile away my time, or sink into complete and total depression.
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One day his brother came and broke the news to her, but it took a few days to sink in.
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If BHP's predictions are accurate the realities of the so-called "two-speed" economy and the sheer scale of the mining boom will begin to sink in.
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He's even threatened to take the considerable moolah he was going to sink into the team's purchase and by cracky, sue those vile scalawags who besmirched his integri-fucking-ty!
Archive 2009-11-01
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She knew she must drive herself forward with feverish energy or she would sink in a sea of misery.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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We discovered that as we had gotten older, we'd gotten taller and larger to the point that sitting on a sledge tends to make it sink into the snow rather than fly screaming towards the trees at the bottom.
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He paused, waiting for the cruel and actually childishly stupid words to sink into my thick brain.
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If asked to lift up both hands, this person will sink into a posterior pelvic tilt and kyphotic seated position, in an attempt to maintain sitting balance.
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Even as the full enormity of the attack continued to sink in, Nato and the UN Security Council were falling in behind the US line.
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The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.
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He desired not to be pedestalled, but to sink into the crowd.
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You may just want to sink into your seat and hide away, but this will only draw unwanted attention and emphasise wobbly bits.
The Sun
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There will be no more mire and muck to sink into.
Christianity Today
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Unfortunately, I find it plausible that the case for free trade cannot sink in when it is presented in nonmathematical form.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Stick around for the whole show, because at around six minutes, you see the Earth larger this time sink into the darkness astern your moonship.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Earth, Moon, and Sun
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She knew she must drive herself forward with feverish energy or she would sink in a sea of misery.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Protests are inevitable once proposed massive cuts in education, health care, welfare and transportation sink in.
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People are desensitized to violence - you see so much of it on a regular basis on TV and in the movies, or you see these stories on the news about people dying from gun crime, but it doesn't sink in.
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`The weight of the hopper ," the Senior Planning Officer replied, `had caused the wheels to sink into the soft ground.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Once your children realise that a full piggy bank represents money to spend or save, the meaning will sink in.
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He had taken a key from his pocket and opened a cabinet above a dry sink in the back of the cabin.
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You want to sink into oblivion, and you can't find a way.
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Only now, gawking at snow-coated cars, did it finally sink in that I was in Scotland.
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One thing is certain, just as the demon possessed Gadarene swine hurtled to their doom, these two sorry excuses for churches will do likewise, all the while congratulating themselves on their prophetic insight as they sink into the abyss.
Heading over the cliff together « Anglican Samizdat
