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Sentence Examples Spray the rim, toilet seat, counter top and sink with your all-purpose cleaner. Inside I found another sink complete with washbasins, and a cooker with utensils mounted on the wall. She was enraptured by the sight of two young men sitting in half barrels trying to sink one another whilst staying afloat in a freshwater pond. They groom them constantly, keeping the pups' fur in such good condition that it keeps the pup afloat and unable to sink. Now he's trying to smooth out his delivery and return the sink to his sinker. Yet they have the explosive ability to sink or badly damage even large vessels by blowing open their hull below the waterline. I kept silent as I finally found a sea green terry washcloth, walked over to the sink, and dampened it with cold water. I turned on the sink, cupped my hands under the faucet, and drank some of the water that was trapped in my hands. The other bedroom at this level is a single with fitted bunk beds, a wardrobe, dressing table and sink. She went to the sink and wet a towel to clean Matty's face which was covered with spaghetti. If Apple does come out with a response, they have to sink down to Napster's level and it doesn't jibe with their type of advertising at all. One by one, she held them underwater in the kitchen sink before dumping their bodies in plastic bags in her wheelie bin. One of them planted a punch into his stomach, causing the Doctor to sink to his knees, whimpering in pain. She whipped a plastic bag from beneath the sink and started packing ornaments, briskly, like baggers at the Acme. Try to remove the katsuobushi while it's still floating on the surface, before it has a chance to sink. Mini-kitchens don't need big sinks, but it's a good idea to equip the sink with a tall faucet so you can easily fill pitchers and wash bowls. The next morning, while wading a long stretch of the river, I begin to sink in sand. She took the soaked washrag that had been lying on her chest, and threw it into the sink. When the ship began to sink, the franchisor left its charge afloat in turbulent waters, without a life jacket. There are clean towels and washrags under the sink and shampoo is already in the shower. Show More Sentences We've all done it, its like walking in quicksand, the more you struggle the faster you sink. Perhaps students, instead of wasting money on machines, could just get a washboard and do their clothes in the kitchen sink. Davey is more accurate than he was in the minors, but he might need to aim higher or take some of the sink out of his sinker. Sandbags were attached to the corpses to make them sink but the disposal was botched. It took a few more seconds for it to sink in for Borger that the trial had concluded, but it finally did. Each day we seem to sink deeper into the quicksand of self-indulgence. I put my dish in the sink and started to wash the plates up. With the majority of the dishes dry and the pots suitably soaked, wash them up, dry them and you're done, except for emptying the sink and wiping down the counters and sink. Because the unopened fruit won't sink when submerged in water, many believe the fruit of the kapok tree floated its way from Latin America to Africa. And they say other faults including a gut-wrenching stench due to the plumber's failure to connect the kitchen sink waste pipe to the sewer kept emerging. After eating her bedtime snack, she put her spoon and glass in the sink that had her dinner dishes, and the empty yogurt container in a nearby wastebasket. I almost regretted agreeing to let her help me get ready for the party when I saw the array of brushes, compacts, bottles, and tubes littering the top of her sink. On the arid plains of northern China, the depletion of shallow reservoirs has forced people to sink wells into aquifers more than 1 km below the surface. Throwing hot fat into your trash can will melt the bag, and pouring it down the sink will corrode the pipes. If you must use a bathtub, washtub, or kitchen sink to wash screens. Ashcroft's immediate response to the attacks was to sink into a dark Orwellian morass of secret detentions, warrantless wiretaps, and eavesdropping on lawyers. His wife, colleen, had been rinsing plates at the sink and putting them in the dishwasher. Elle slammed the washrag she held in her hand into the sink. At the back of the hall, the kitchen has quarry tiles on the floor, hand-crafted oak units, granite worktops, a tiled splashback and a double Belfast sink unit. It's ok to wee in the sink, as long as you have the tap running. Show More Sentences With quicksand, the more you struggle in it the faster you will sink. We do not want to sink to such a fanatical fixity, but we do not want to drown in ahistorical complacency, either. Two other Cortland lines I use are both sinkers, a medium and fast sink. When it started to become more than that and my cheeks started to sink in and stuff like that, I thought it would be best to go. This has a sink unit, various storage presses and a walk-in wine cellar while a side door leads to an enclosed yard with a patio area, boiler house and fuel store. Justy studied them a moment while Amanda went through a side door and found a small water closet that contained an all-species toilet with a small sink. And lo and behold, she was determined to sink the mining industry, and we were determined to fight for our community. Washing happened in an enormous sink on the rooftop or in the compound, scrubbed in cold water and using a special detergent and a stiff brush on a corrugated washboard. Winter cooling and convection allow AIW to sink and pool behind the Denmark Strait. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning. Deep waters sink into the deep ocean basins at high latitudes where the temperatures are cold enough to cause the density to increase. The oceans are normally a natural carbon sink, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Bottom trawlers and sink gillnets are the primary equipment used to harvest spiny dogfish. When phytoplankton cells die, they sink towards the bottom and are decomposed by bacteria, a process that further reduces DO in the water column. Marshes also improve water quality by acting as a sink to filter pollutants and sediment from the water that flows through them. The gradual accumulation of decayed plant material in a bog functions as a carbon sink. The resulting weight of the structures caused them to sink into the sediment of Lake Texcoco. One unique aspect of its construction is a series of columns which sink into the earth to a depth of about two and a half meters. He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck. If he ever reely hit you with that fist of his'n, it ud sink in up to the elbow. Show More Sentences He was an experienced mining engineer, able to survey, sink shafts, to construct railways, tunnels and stationary engines. Streams flowing from higher impermeable slopes sink into the ground when they reach permeable limestone. A person ready to sink under his Wants, has neither time, nor heart, to Rhetoricate, or make Flourishes. In dry conditions the river disappears underground into the sink hole known as Manchester Hole. The plumber left his second banana behind, to finish installing my new sink. The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese into the sink, which was then open. How, she asked herself, could a mature man of such enormous talent sink to the level of behaving like a superbrat? I'm so glad you've found a life and work you can sink your toothypegs into with glee. Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink. I had to unplug the sink the other day, there was far too much hair and gunk down there. Yield to the forbidden music of my soul. Dear Chloe, please can I sink my teeth into your neck and drink your blood? Their record player was a bird with a big beak and their waste disposal unit was a hungry buzzard who lived underneath the sink. Food waste disposal units are fitted to the waste pipe of your kitchen sink. I am in Oktoberfest mood as I am hoping to sink a few Weiss beer specials down the IFSC a little later tonight. They're putting in large, expensive grills and refrigerators, and often adding a full wet bar, complete with counter and sink. A very large chemical mine was designed to sink through ice with the aid of a melting compound. Janet gave him a cougarish once-over that made him feel like a piece of raw meat she was looking to sink her teeth into. It is likewise inappropriate to sink into prolonged intramusical contemplation when one is squeezed into a 7-11-type convenience store. He conceived it just that accidentals... should sink with the substance of the accusation. There are no brownies in my house, though. I know because there's always a pile of dishes in the sink. Show More Sentences The cutlery increasing on the drainer, chock a block, While the sink is overflowing as the dishes run amok! An aluminum window screen placed at the bottom of your paint sink makes it easy to degunkify your sink. Joe would be careful to skin it over the sink, then lay it flat on its pelt to drain it, behead it, de-paw it, de-muck it. She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know. It's the nature of founderings that ships have buoyancy and are afloat one second, then lose buoyancy and sink the next. Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table. This system has an insulated 5-gallon electric hot water heater directly under the sink. In the North Atlantic Ocean, the water becomes so dense that it begins to sink down through less salty and less dense water. But because there is no metal mass in the rotor to act as a heat sink, even small coreless motors must often be cooled by forced air. Where CHP is not used, steam turbines in stationary power plants use surface condensers as a cold sink. In some cases a thermosiphon may also be less bulky than a normal heat sink and fan. Too many otherwise suitable sites may be found to have sink holes, cavities, or poor load bearing qualities. The more the opponent misses, the faster they tire, and the psychological effects of being unable to land a hit will start to sink in. Realist works of art may emphasize the mundane, ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism, regionalism, or kitchen sink realism. We seemed to sink through layer after layer of what was superficial, till gradually both reached the central fire. In the 1970s the tundra was a carbon sink, but today, it is a carbon source. The plastic was a nonporous surface, so the ink couldn't sink in and stain it. While primarily a conspiracy thriller, the series also examines the depths humanity can sink to under pressure. A submerged submarine is in an unstable equilibrium, having a tendency to either sink or float to the surface. Spermatozoa and ova are released freely into the water during mating season, and fertilized ova sink to the bottom. Show More Sentences This process, called the biological pump, is one reason that oceans constitute the largest carbon sink on Earth. Most diatoms are nonmotile, as their relatively dense cell walls cause them to readily sink. She and another pod member ate the shark's liver and allowed the rest of the carcass to sink. It cools the burning material, acting as a heat sink, and also blocks off oxygen. Having only one large steam turbine and heat sink results in low cost because of economies of scale. Conversely, the southern part has tended to sink to compensate, causing flooding of the Low Countries and Denmark. Areas like volcanic islands are experiencing relative sea level rise as a result of isostatic cooling of the rock which causes the land to sink. Since body tissue is denser than water, fish must compensate for the difference or they will sink. However, their ships proved difficult to sink despite severe damage and impressed the British with the quality of their firing. The introduction of the torpedo provided a weapon that could cripple, or even sink, any battleship. Drained marshes will eventually sink below the surrounding water level, increasing the danger from flooding. In lakes, this means that shores sink in the direction farther away from the former maximum depth of ice. The Germans laid mines in shipping lanes to sink merchant and naval vessels serving Britain. After reaching the target area they sink to the sea bed and act like conventionally laid influence mines. She snorted at his suggestion that he could fix the sink himself. Flooding typically occurs in one or two main watertight compartments which can sink smaller ships or disable larger ones. The British intended to sink obsolete ships in the canal entrance, to prevent German vessels from leaving port. While the clastic bed is still fluid, diapirism can cause a denser upper layer to sink into a lower layer. When these organisms die, their skeletons sink to the bottom, forming a thick layer of calcareous mud that may lithify into limestone. This process leaves dense, salty waters in the sea that sink over the continental shelf into the western Arctic Ocean and create a halocline. Show More Sentences The density of sea water, in contrast to fresh water, increases as it nears the freezing point and thus it tends to sink. The dense water masses that sink into the deep basins are formed in quite specific areas of the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. These storms freshen the surface water, and their winds increase cyclonic flow, which allows denser waters to sink. An attempt was made to sink a winze to mine the lode below creek level, but this was unsuccessful due to water issues. Once the enemy vessel had revealed itself, the Q-ships had the chance to fire and sink them first. Though the kamikazes had trained for months to become human bombs, they had failed in their mission to sink the carrier. So she had a foot switch for the disposal installed along the kick plate of the base cabinet under the sink. My mother-in-law was saying the other night that it's funny seeing me on stage one minute, this rock god as she put it, then washing bottles in the sink the next. I sink because I cannot swim, undertowed to the Centre, abandoning all remembrance of the surface toward the cloud of unknowing, without choice I'm pulled. The sink is blocked, put a rod down the plug hole and shuggle it about. Russia's growing role in those regions threatened not only to permanently establish Abkhaz and Ossetian independence, but also to sink Georgia's chances at NATO membership. His two-seamer has a heavy sink and keeps the infielders busy. Plumbing a tub-shower is more complicated than plumbing a sink. Only London's finest collection of comfortable, thumbable antiquarian books, I thought, as I watched him sink into a chair near the empty fireplace. If you are sent with ready money to buy anything at a shop, and happen at that time to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on your master's account. Reportedly its pumps failed, causing it to take on water and sink. The crew was powerless to correct the sudden imbalance, and could only scramble for the safety of the upper deck as the ship began to sink rapidly. Deep convection in the Labrador Sea allows colder water to sink forming this water mass, which is a contributor to the upper layer of North Atlantic Deep Water. Note that cold water in polar zones sink relatively rapidly over a small area, while warm water in temperate and tropical zones rise more gradually across a much larger area. Finally, narrow slabs can sink and roll back more rapidly than broad plates, because it is easier for underlying asthenosphere to flow around the edges of the sinking plate. Show More Sentences Subsurface productivity is limited by nutrient availability, as the anoxic bottom waters act as a sink for reduced nitrate, in the form of ammonia. They skirted the land of the Sirens, who sang an enchanting song that normally caused passing sailors to steer toward the rocks, only to hit them and sink. As temperatures cool dramatically in the winter, ice forms and intense vertical convection allows the water to become dense enough to sink below the warm saline water below. Although a balloon has no propulsion system, a degree of directional control is possible through making the balloon rise or sink in altitude to find favorable wind directions. Torpedo boats had become a major threat, as they were cheap but potentially able to sink the largest battleships, and France had built large numbers of them. In forcing the British to suspend their repairs to defend themselves, it influenced Collingwood's decision to sink or set fire to the most damaged of his remaining prizes. There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water. Juveniles of Plateosaurus and other taxa of herbivores were too light to sink into the mud or managed to extract themselves, and were thus not preserved. It is believed that chronically entangled animals may in fact sink upon death, due to loss of buoyancy from depleted blubber reserves, and therefore escape detection. Dinoflagellate theca can sink rapidly to the seafloor in marine snow. The peatland ecosystem is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture CO2 naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. Oh my Goddess, I cannot believe that just crawled out of the sink! Lossiemouth was used during 1942 as a base to launch several unsuccessful missions to sink the German battleship Tirpitz, which at the time was operating in Norwegian fjords. Conduction occurs from a source to a sink for each separate nutrient. For pelagics like king mackerel, jigs can be cast behind the boat, allowed to sink and then aggressively jigged towards the surface to entice the speedy mackerel to bite. While tropical rainforests have more biodiversity and turnover, the immense conifer forests of the world represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink. The water's great density causes it to sink toward the continental shelf, where it mixes with nearly equal parts of water from the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current. A black plumber working under the sink in coveralls was being pestered by a negligeed housewife. He was only trying to do his job, but she just wouldn't leave him be. His mom is such a neatnik that a dirty dish never even hits her sink. In 1810 a wreck near Margate was raised in this way but there was a dispute over payment and Trevithick was driven to cut the lashings loose and let it sink again. Show More Sentences Did you see him sitting barearse in the sink? He is disgusting. The morale of both civilians and soldiers continued to sink. The simplest cold sink is to vent the steam to the environment. However American forces managed to sink four of Japan's six large aircraft carriers that had initiated the attack on Pearl Harbor along with other attacks on Allied forces. In 1915, the Germans renounced these restrictions and began to sink merchant ships on sight, but later returned to the previous rules of engagement to placate neutral opinion. The general opinion on Baz Luhrmann's overstuffed epic Australia seems to be that it throws in everything but the kitchen sink, and then tosses that in too, just to be sure. Combine baking soda and castile or liquid soap to form a frostinglike consistency to use as a soft scrub cleanser instead of a sink, tub, and tile cleaner. We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea. First you should know that the size of the drain hole in the bottom of the sink is reflective of the drainpipe's diameter that has been standardized by the plumbing industry. Ordinarily, these elements would sink into the star quickly and disappear, so the atoms are probably raining down on the white dwarf as the planets break apart. In the video, a member of the Greek coast guard apparently attempts to sink a boat full of refugees in the Aegean Sea crossing from Turkey to Greece. For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. Add to it depleting water table and the truth must sink in that whatever land area we have has to be preserved, and utilised as best as can be, at all costs. Examples from Classical Literature After the articulation of the conidia, their bearers sink together by degrees, and are quite destroyed. She had helped him not to die, and yet to sink into the ambling pace of these defended years. Before him was a beautifully kept lane bordered by arbored and trellised roses, which seemed to sink into the distance. There is a heavy hand-hewn stone sink and a copper caldron with its own firebox and ashpit. I traced these whorls with my eye, and tried to reproduce them with a ballpoint on paper bags I found under the sink. Gid's not to say a teetotaler, but he had to climb into the bandwagon skiff or sink outen sight. I was met with a beatific smile from Mrs. Jim, who was peeling potatoes at the sink. The sink was powdered with blusher and marked with lipstick and mascara residue. When they reached bonanza the sun was low, and when they were off San Lucar it had begun to sink. Thomas, the bounder, had a small heavy ball which he managed to sink in nine. It was, indeed, a task which might make the heart of the bravest sink within him. The magnitude of his own brokenness began to sink in and now he could barely hold back the tears. The Calypso is water-logged, will no longer obey her helm, and must surely sink. We wrapped him in his hammock, with a cannon-ball at his feet to sink him. Let them sink all our sailing vessels, we will betake ourselves to tugs. And then the flag began to sink with the ship in the billowy sea. I'd level straightway with the dust, and with it sink our shame. Here's a sink, with the water laid on, Sir, and a clean jack towel behind the door. The coffin bone and navicular bone sink a little and rotate backward. Gibabuybabuy ANG hugasan, The sink is infested with wood lice. Show More Sentences I never can right myself here, with all the fellows watching, and laying wagers whether I sink or swim. It is also cheaper to drive an adit than to sink an incline. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom. They do not grow weary nor miss step, nor do they fall out of rank and sink by the wayside to be left contemplating the moving procession. Why wouldn't we be allowed to sink a coal mine in our own counthry? I sink you Bose drown last night, but you have bonne fortune and escape. He paused to let that stream of adjectival opprobrium sink in. But a gull is an air-ship that can sink whenever it chooses. We had to wash in a sink, sleep on afoam mattress and dig our own toilets. I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror, and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me. He showed them the sink in the kitchen, with running water and a faucet, something which Teta Elzbieta had never in her wildest dreams hoped to possess. She saw herself sink from the sublime height of motherhood to the somber depths of unmodified slavery, the abyss of separation between her and her boy was complete. This spectacle of gradual strangulation made the youth writhe, and once as his friend rolled his eyes, he saw something in them that made him sink wailing to the ground. Subsiding from it, he did not sink into his former intellectual apathy. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sink? Words that rhyme with sink What is the past tense of sink? What is the plural of sink? What is the adverb for sink? What is the adjective for sink? What is the noun for sink? Translations for sink Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Sinitic sinistrous sinistrally sinistrality sinistral sinisterness Sink sinkable sinkage sinker sinkers sinkhole 4-letter Words Starting With s si sin