drown
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I added enough hot sauce to drown out the lemon.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Allow the dreams to flow like water through your body, so they don’t drown you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
In Leicestershire, the family of a teenage boy who became the latest to drown while swimming in open water during the hot weather paid tribute to him.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
There’s also plenty of time for more damaging stories to drown out that message.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
If someone got into trouble or was going to drown, no timely help would be available out there.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
She simply drowns them out with the sound machine as she drifts into a deep sleep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
“It drowns out NIMBYism,” said Heidi Marshall, director of the county’s housing and workforce solutions department.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
"Ken-Betwa dam is built by the government, it gives others water but drowns us," they sang, the lyrics capturing their anguish.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
But I have quite enjoyed the platform’s small selection, because it spares me from the paralysis of endless choice that drowns me on Netflix.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
A long beep drowns out all the other noise.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Both Sameeha and Shally drowned as they tried to save Musa, who was airlifted to hospital.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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
France reported at least 74 drowning deaths since June 18 and Poland said 17 drowned on Sunday alone.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
But before long the baaing of sheep drowned them all out.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Mr Gittins recorded his cause of death as drowning and a conclusion of misadventure.
From BBC ● 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
"I was just in a trough, drowning in uncertainty," says Walaa Volidis, a Palestinian software engineer.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The attorney told Nunley he was drowning in nearly identical cases and had fallen behind with the paperwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
‘If you blew this dream into my bedroom when I was asleep, would I really and truly start dreaming about how I saved my teacher from drowning by diving off the bridge?’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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