DROWN in a Sentence
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131 example sentences for DROWN, such as:
1. Too much water drowned the miller.
2. If you ever deny it again I'll drown you.
3. Bacchus has drowned more men than Nepture.
4. she almost screamed, so as to drown his voice.
5. The little girl fell into the lake and drowned.
2. If you ever deny it again I'll drown you.
3. Bacchus has drowned more men than Nepture.
4. she almost screamed, so as to drown his voice.
5. The little girl fell into the lake and drowned.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DROWN
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drown
v. kill by submerging in water
v. cover completely or make imperceptible
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1 It would probably be difficult with Rhett acting so foolishly about Bonnie and probably wanting a son next year, for all that he said he'd drown any boy she gave him.
2 But now the flood was shot through with glory, and it was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
3 Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.
4 It was a ghost that would not drown; it followed him, it seized upon him and beat him to the ground.
5 I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness.
6 If you ever deny it again I'll drown you.
7 But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.
8 Father, you know very well that the general was not a man to drown himself in despair, and people do not bathe in the Seine in the month of January.
9 Dantes would have shouted, but he knew that the wind would drown his voice.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
10 she almost screamed, so as to drown his voice.
11 To the alleged insanity of the Swedes, Balashev wished to reply that when Russia is on her side Sweden is practically an island: but Napoleon gave an angry exclamation to drown his voice.
12 This caused people all over France to begin to slash at and drown one another.
13 For reasons known or unknown to us the French began to drown and kill one another.
14 The necessary tactics of insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains.
15 It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the well-being of all.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 Probably all know that a fish could drown, if the functions of the gills fail.
2 If your jogging clothes weren't made out of permeable fabric, you'd drown in your own perspiration.
3 Well, everybody WAS in a state of mind now, and they sings out: "The whole BILIN' of 'm 's frauds! Le's duck 'em! le's drown 'em! le's ride 'em on a rail!" and everybody was whooping at once, and there was a rattling powwow.
4 A child can drown in only a few inches of water.
5 In a great river great fish are found; but take heed lest you be drowned.
6 The cheers of the audience drowned the professor's voice.
7 Avoid the ford on which your friend was drowned.
8 Too much water drowned the miller.
9 Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned.
10 An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
11 His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.
12 The sector dam broke and its water drowned the entire valley.
13 The little girl fell into the lake and drowned.
14 Bacchus has drowned more men than Nepture.
15 When Jack nearly drowned, they brought him to by artificial respiration.