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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

Allow the dreams to flow like water through your body, so they don’t drown you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

"They drown out the crowd a little bit and bring down the bass, because sometimes it can be really overwhelming and you can't hear properly", she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Put the stem of a leaf spray in water, in a narrow-necked container, such as a bottle, so the caterpillar can’t fall in and drown.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

In order to make her dreams come true, Lover travels to Europe for fertility treatments, where he drowns on a ship, the only thing left of him a finger, delivered to her by fishermen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

In Hamlet, Ophelia, his wife, a young noblewoman from Denmark, goes mad and drowns.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

One day soon, Americans will wake to the sight of families packed inside stifling stadiums after a Category 5 hurricane drowns New Orleans.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2025

He shouts something up at us, but the music drowns him out.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

In June, a 5-year-old girl from San Bernardino drowned in Laguna Beach after she was pulled into the ocean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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

At least 35 people have drowned so far during record-breaking heatwaves according to data by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

More than 1,500 people drowned when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic while on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The Okawa Elementary School, where so many students and teachers drowned, has been dug out of the mud and swept clean.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

That's when cold water can cause a sudden heart attack by increasing your heart rate, or making you gasp for breath and inhaling water directly into the lungs, leading to drowning.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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 cause was never confirmed, but conspiratorial neighbors note that the fire extricated the owner from a money pit that was drowning in permit violations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Cristian Capotescu, an associate director at Columbia’s Trust Collaboratory who studies social trust, noticed the loudest voices were drowning out a silent majority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

I sit bolt upright in my seat and suck air as if I'd been drowning.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King