NOUN
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a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension
with a sinking heart
a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach
How To Use sinking feeling In A Sentence
- That sinking feeling we'd experienced as we watched the snow fall when it was supposed to be melting dissipated.
- That sinking feeling was back … and every University of South Carolina fan clad in garnet-and-black at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday afternoon could feel it. “The Drive”
- I don't realise I am driving fast, but am woken up by screeching brakes, a confused horizon, loud shouts and a sinking feeling.
- The latter part of this story left me with a sinking feeling. Times, Sunday Times
- When they didn't get back by midnight, I got that sinking feeling.
- Five times he has trudged away with that horrible, sinking feeling of defeat. The Sun
- Whenever I think of going to the dentist I get sinking feeling.
- A sinking feeling of despair welled up within her, threatening to swamp her completely.
- I got my first sinking feeling when I found myself a little while later playing bodyguard in the kitchen of a strange drug dealer while she scored a bag of dope.
- And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she'd known all along even though she hadn't wanted to.