sunken

Example Sentences

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They think it could be from a stone age society whose disappearance under rising seas was the origin of a local sunken city myth.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

Silver pearls glisten on the men’s foreheads and their eyes are sunken deep in their pale faces, framed in a stubble of beard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

In a phone interview, police said residents of the village of Las Cuevas reported two Trinidadians were believed to be on the sunken vessel, but could not confirm the deaths.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Have you ever fallen victim to a cake with a sunken center?

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025

At the center of the garden is a sunken lily pond with little mossy stairs that curve all the way around it.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish