submergence

Example Sentences

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Initial loss rates were highest for the first hour of submergence for the carpet, fleece and sports vest.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023

“They’re great for internal-pressure vessels like scuba tanks, for example, but they’re terrible for external pressure, so this was trying to apply aviation thinking to a deep submergence engineering problem.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2023

“So this was trying to apply aviation thinking to a deep submergence engineering problem. And we all said this was a flawed idea.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Industry experts say they were the first known fatalities in more than 60 years of civilian deep-sea submergence.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was an unforgivable imposition, he’d chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor