be sunk

Example Sentences

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The group organised a farewell ceremony with bagpipers on Tuesday after learning that the ship was to be sunk the following morning.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

This is the better-than-ten-bagger bet that AI luminaries talk up as they set out plans for trillions of dollars to be sunk into data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

But terrestrial biomass can be sunk only where supplies of waste are located near suitable bodies of water.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2023

If Angela Colicchio, a Port Hueneme resident of six years, has her way, this effort will be sunk too.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2022

Or else they would have given up the effort, and each man would be sunk in his own pool of silence.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin