sink
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Anymore Chambati, who had been a security official on the vessel, told AFP he had tried to hand out life jackets as the boat began to sink.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Three-time major champion Lydia Ko is also well placed to make a move from one under par, as is England's Mimi Rhodes, who recovered from two early bogeys to sink three birdies.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Even after being cast, Alaska said it didn’t fully sink in until she began doing press for the production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Parillo subsequently urged Sandy to “let her lawyers deal with this,” at which point Amy said, “don’t let your lawyers deal with this, they’re gonna sink you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
She walks over to the sink next to me and washes her hands.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Classrooms must meet state licensing requirements and include low sinks, tiny toilets and a minimum of two exits — compared with a TK-12 classroom that needs just one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
It showed instruments and carrier bags discarded on work surfaces and even sinks, while desks were littered with paperwork.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
After they die, a portion of that carbon sinks to the seafloor, where it can remain stored for long periods, helping transfer carbon from the surface ocean into long term storage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
It’s why she largely sinks in dramas but succeeds in comedies, where she can portray a version of herself that makes people laugh just by thinking, “Isn’t it so funny that Jennifer Aniston said that?”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
The back end of the wagon slowly sinks.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
That selloff was fuelled by fears over the returns on vast sums invested in projects around the world, as well as traders being forced to liquidate bets as prices sank.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Divers tied stone weights around their ankles and held their breath as they sank to the bottom of the shallows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The company also fell short of Wall Street expectations for revenue, which sank 11% to $8.7 billion, despite noteworthy gains in its HBO Max streaming business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
WTI futures fell 31.5% during the quarter and Brent futures sank 29.8%, with both ending the quarter slightly above where they were just before the Iran war started.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
When the US battleship Maine exploded and sank in Cuba’s Havana harbor under mysterious circumstances on February 15, 1898, the US intervened.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Two 80-metre barges are also being stationed at Paks that could be sunk to raise the water level.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
But the combined weight of the Covid pandemic, China's spiralling property slump and constricted borrowing limits for its citizens have sunk those sky-high ambitions, and all but ground the project to a standstill.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
In 1916, the Canadian ship SS Mount Temple was sunk by a German ship.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
I was in my living room, sunk into the chaise lounge I retreat to, comfortable in a way that now embarrasses me, when I heard my mother’s voice in the other room calling my father.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
My ankle sang a terrible song like my toothache had sunk to my foot.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Some of these attacks have resulted in marine pollution, including the sinking of container ship Safeen Prestige on 4 March following an attack near Oman.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Thank God that a wave pushed the sinking vessel and we managed to climb on top," Chance Siyamavhu said at a memorial service in the lakeside town of Kariba close to the border with Zambia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Furthermore, the most recent joint intervention between the U.S. and Japan to support the sinking Japanese yen was carried out in a way that could further alienate the global investor community, Rosenberg said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Bank of Japan’s policy rate is negative in inflation-adjusted terms, and the persistent gap between low Japanese and higher foreign interest rates helps explain the sinking yen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“However, I have a sinking feeling that at least one of you doesn’t really need a scholarship from me anymore.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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