- present participle of drown.
drowning
Example Sentences
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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
“All of my friends that work in the same field ... we have no idea what to do, because we’re drowning in logistics. We need everything, but we don’t know what that is.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
