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Any team that relentlessly jacks up trifectas even as it sinks one of every four boasts a confidence that borders on hubris.
Graywater recycling funnels water from baths, showers and sinks into the garden, where action by plant roots breaks it down.
To his horror, a car violently plunges off the bridge and sinks into the murky depths of the water below.
All plumbing fixtures, including toilets, sinks and basins, have shut-off valves located under the fixture against the wall.
After today the trees get thin, it matters less where I have been, the black dog, silent, sinks back in after today has gone.
However, reality quickly sinks in as you realize that seconds wasted cost lives.
As her tail sinks into the semifluid sand, she twists her body and drills herself downward until she is buried up to the pectoral fins.
The sun suddenly sinks, and the mopokes burst out into horrible peels of semi human laughter.
It shows a car from below as it sinks toward the seabed amid a swirling shoal of silvery fish.
One ship sinks, many sailors die, and Martin points out to Candide that the gruesome affair further proves his point.
As the last English galley sinks below the waves, an English emissary arrives at Bangalore under a white flag of truce.
If the seacock for the engine intake is left open, the boat sinks when the ice thaws.
The captain of a big ship sinks a small boat because, otherwise, both will drown at a particular juncture.
They are laughing about it now but it will be different when it sinks in and they realise what a close shave they have had.
And that as a result, the land mass now actually sinks, because it's fine alluvial soil.
For the rest of the month Mercury sinks back down to the horizon while fading rapidly, and is out of sight well before the end of April.
He glances at his watch, moves his coffee to the dash and sinks a little lower in the car seat.
When the RSI value sinks below the 30 value, the issue is thought to be oversold.
Without the aid of soy sauce or wasabi, our dishevelled hero sinks his teeth into the head of a live and writhing squid.
The soil carbon cycle shows the sources and sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide, with an emphasis on the two-stage process of humification.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In amniotic animals the base of the skull appears bent in on the abdominal side, so that the head sinks upon the breast.
The land sinks to meadows, black pine forests, with here and there a blue and wistful mountain.
The washing water and chloride of lime are then to be worked down the gutters, into the sinks, cesses, or natural watercourses.
Water contracts when freezing until it sinks to 40 deg., and then it expands as ice is formed.
He thinks it is too late to change for any useful purpose, and he sinks into despondency.
But Socrates has no sooner found the new solution than he sinks into a fit of despondency.
Twice a day it rises, and twice a day it sinks and ebbs again all along the shore.
The palpebral fissure is smaller than its fellow, and the eyeball sinks into the orbit.
A drop of acid on it fizzes away and sinks in between the grains of sand which in this spot become loose.
The depth to which it sinks is considered the penetrability of the snowpack by a walking deer.
The sinks were of stainless steel and the large tables at which the lunches would be prepared were of a similar material.
He never sinks English success into failure, or inflates French failure into victory.
Having attended to this duty, the tac likewise retires and Camp McPherson sinks into the slumbers of the night.
The mouth and tongue become coated and swollen, the throat thickens and the voice sinks to a thready whisper.
There is a point where toleration sinks into sheer baseness and poltroonery.
He sinks the Conservative principles of the Reaction, and gives prominence only to its ultramontanism.
The washroom in our barracks contained a row of sinks where we washed and shaved.
From the foot of the ruin the valley sinks abruptly down toward the northwest, where it has quite a winterly aspect.
The quinary element does not disappear, but merely sinks into a relatively unimportant position.
The Big Valley sinks and boats such as the Maverick scour the icy walers for survivors.
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