drown

Example Sentences

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Some promote their own big-name DJs and music stars, which have drawn complaints and fines for drowning out the sounds of samba.

From Barron's

Many of these high-profile attempts to foster serious conversation through art drowned it in vanity.

From Salon

It would take serious effort to drown here.

From Literature

"My Star, my bukshah! She is out there. Oh, help me! She is drowning. She is dying! Listen to her!"

From Literature

But it was the nearby rink without a drowning hazard that changed the course of Stolz’s career.

From The Wall Street Journal