sunken

Example Sentences

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Authorities said this will be followed by machinery that will drag nets through the river to scoop up sunken fish.

From New York Times

And he evacuates his bowels into a cistern sunken in the middle of the living room.

From Washington Post

The artist will “reactivate” that project by installing furniture in the “sunken living room,” a public space in the atrium of the Queens Museum.

From New York Times

While Ruffin’s stories can’t help but transport the reader to humid, sunken, decaying New Orleans, it’s too easy to say this book is merely a set of love songs to the city.

From Los Angeles Times

That sunken space — identical on both sides of the venue — has an indoor/outdoor feel with greenery cascading down the tiered retaining walls, giant fans on the ceiling and towering white columns.

From Los Angeles Times