drown

I added enough hot sauce to drown out the lemon.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

We're speaking in the middle of the same crowded bistro, where maracas, horns, matracas, and chants almost drown out our conversation.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

So instead, firefighters are blasting a constant stream of water into the belly of the warehouse, hoping to drown out the flames.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

There’s also plenty of time for more damaging stories to drown out that message.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Shawn began to explain the name, so I started laughing—loud enough, I hoped, to drown him out.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

In the play—spoiler alert—Ophelia drowns in a river after her father is murdered by Hamlet, whom she may have been in love with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

“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

Leer nearly drowns trying to demonstrate a sausage.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

"It really breaks my heart to see so many people suffering, and who knows how many have actually drowned along the way," one young man, a local resident, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

Dinah was scratching against the inside of my pocket, but all the sounds around me were drowned out by the voice pounding into my head.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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

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

Private-equity firms and venture capitalists have taken note and are now drowning his staff with as many as 500 pitches a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

They reached for her the way a drowning man reaches up at a passing boat.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat