drown
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You may think the floor-to-ceiling speakers drown out your work gossip, but even at the loudest shows talking can be disruptive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Hylton calls for more research into why these children are so much more likely to drown.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Secular Israelis were prepared with a counter-protest, blowing whistles to drown out the chants and with some wearing pink lapel buttons showing a middle finger.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
I added enough hot sauce to drown out the lemon.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
The sound makes every part of me feel loaded with guilt, so heavy I could drown in it.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
It buys prestige, photographs, the roar that drowns out everything the host would rather you not hear.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
The crowd drowns in the second-long tension as they sit below teardrop-shaped papier-mâché stalactite hanging from handmade alien geodes on the ceiling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Decades later he would tell a high-school English teacher that the scene in which Rabbit’s wife, Janice, accidentally drowns their baby “was the most intense writing of my life.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Fans assumed that The Fate of Ophelia would tether Swift Shakespeare's story of a noblewoman who drowns in a fit of mania after being driven mad by grief.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
I call for help but the wind drowns my cries.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Parts of Orange County, still a vast agricultural Eden, were drowned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Chants of "Ole, Ole, Ole" drowned out Pili's ringwalk music before Taylor finally emerged to 'All Hail King Jesus', a nod to the faith she has spoken so openly about throughout her career.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The executives in charge of programming know that these movies will get watched simply because they’re on Netflix, and then they will be drowned by another wave of content.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
As they continued into their first set of songs, it became apparent that the volume on their microphones was a bit low, leaving lyrics drowned in the rest of the mix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
I drowned in the flood of technical jargon.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Napa’s heralded Signorello Estate winery is drowning in debt, according to its bankruptcy filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
On Amazon, you can get blue-blockers for $20—if you want to be a sucker whose eyes are drowning in other short-wavelength light!
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
I am drowning in debt, as the old saying goes, and I need to take action.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
An autopsy found Noah had died from drowning, with the tunnel he was found in heading towards Belfast Lough and its tides.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
She’s still talking, but the hissing snake is drowning her out, insisting that I pay attention.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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