drowned

Example Sentences

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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti agreed that it "felt that female voices were drowned out" in the Epstein files coverage.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Even on the rare occasions when they scored, the Americans were drowned up by the earsplitting whistles from the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

What began as a sharp reversal in highflying artificial intelligence stocks before the market opened snowballed into a broad market selloff that drowned the broader indexes.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Three teenagers died in open water in West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Warwickshire on Bank Holiday Monday, and a 15-year-old boy drowned in a lake near Lincoln on Sunday.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

He wore a huge army jacket that drowned his too-thin frame, and I could tell from his sharp cheekbones and hollow cheeks that he didn’t get enough food.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller