submersion
Example Sentences
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Early land art, like Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” now serves as a warning about climate change due to its increasing submersion and re-emergence.
"The submersion caused by the rapid rise in sea level, followed by the abandonment of fishing structures, protective works, and habitation sites, must have left a lasting impression."
From BBC
The primitive submarine, which held enough air for about a thirty-minute submersion, was about seven feet long and about six feet tall.
From Literature
What I miss most is closing my eyes at night, then opening them and it’s morning, that total submersion, yesterday’s problems wiped away like algebraic equations on a junior-high blackboard.
“I Saw the TV Glow” captures this obsessive, anticipatory submersion in a long-form weekly TV show, to the point where it ignites the same feeling.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
