sink

Example Sentences

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Price expected the "kitchen sink from round one" and Pineiro immediately looked to start the fight on the front foot.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

"By rapidly taking up and using fuel sources from our bodies and the food that we eat, brown fat acts like a metabolic sink that draws in nutrients and prevents them from being stored."

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

It plans to sink the mine’s first shaft this year, and hopes to repeat similar success in Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Jurors agreed that Musk violated a securities rule that bars false and misleading statements that sink a stock price, in this case that of Twitter, the verdict form showed.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

I leaned against the old wooden sink and shut my eyes.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom