drown
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I added enough hot sauce to drown out the lemon.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
"They drown out the crowd a little bit and bring down the bass, because sometimes it can be really overwhelming and you can't hear properly", she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Play soft music to drown out fireworks blasts and give your pet something to do, like putting treats inside an interactive toy, to keep them calm and happy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
There’s also plenty of time for more damaging stories to drown out that message.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
I put my headphones back on and turn the music loud enough to drown out every other sound, so I can finally fall asleep.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
It buys prestige, photographs, the roar that drowns out everything the host would rather you not hear.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
“As much as they say it’s about free speech, it actually drowns out speech.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
She simply drowns them out with the sound machine as she drifts into a deep sleep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
In Hamlet, Ophelia, his wife, a young noblewoman from Denmark, goes mad and drowns.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
A long beep drowns out all the other noise.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
A couple who tried to rescue a mother and daughter who drowned have called for more life-saving equipment on the beach where they died.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
He received a hero’s welcome in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv after forging a tenuous Gaza ceasefire last October, visibly moved as he was drowned out by appreciative shouts of “Thank you, Witkoff!”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The music and cheers blur into a low hum, drowned out by the deafening sound of a ticking clock only Jack can hear.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
In June, 123 people drowned across Ukraine, including 10 in Kyiv.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
As six men lifted the body of the drowned man and started to carry him toward the house, the people around us started asking us questions.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
The cause was never confirmed, but conspiratorial neighbors note that the fire extricated the owner from a money pit that was drowning in permit violations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
And it is still, for me and for the strangers arriving on its shore, the difference between drowning and being born.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
At least 57 people died, mostly by drowning as crowds tried to swim around breakwaters that separate Ceuta from Moroccan territory, Spanish officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It is a process known as "noyer" which translates as "drowning" in French.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Night noises—creaks and cracks, crunches and snaps; the echoing call of an owl—fill my ears, but I am drowning inside in silence...
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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