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: the process or degree of sinking
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: the distance from the top line of a full page to the first line of lowered matter
Examples of sinkage in a Sentence
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During testing, there was significant sinkage when sitting on the edge of this mattress.
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Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2024
Stomach sleepers, meanwhile, need something a bit firmer, like the Saatva Latex Hybrid or Birch Natural, in order to avoid too much hip sinkage.
—Claudia Fisher, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024
Our testers didn’t notice excess sinkage, a great indicator that the mattress allows for proper spinal alignment in both sleep positions.
—Renee Cherry, SELF, 3 Sep. 2024
Again, a memory foam mattress can fit the bill as well as a hybrid mattress, but bear in mind that foam mattresses tend to be on the softer side (making uncomfortable sinkage a risk).
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 27 June 2022
The sinkage and erosion that result are not good news for the many roads and pipelines used by oil and gas industry workers up there.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2022
That plan also calls for a series of 36 inch casings, or holes, to be drilled below ground as sheaths for the piles, but doing so previously resulted in sinkage and the work was paused in August.
—Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
This sinkage can burst pipes, crack foundations, and destroy roads, so engineers study the composition of potential landfill development sites to assess future stability and to develop designs that can account for settlement.
—Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
Differential sinkage is a constant concern for developers.
—Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2024
Stomach sleepers, meanwhile, need something a bit firmer, like the Saatva Latex Hybrid or Birch Natural, in order to avoid too much hip sinkage.
—Claudia Fisher, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024
Our testers didn’t notice excess sinkage, a great indicator that the mattress allows for proper spinal alignment in both sleep positions.
—Renee Cherry, SELF, 3 Sep. 2024
Again, a memory foam mattress can fit the bill as well as a hybrid mattress, but bear in mind that foam mattresses tend to be on the softer side (making uncomfortable sinkage a risk).
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 27 June 2022
The sinkage and erosion that result are not good news for the many roads and pipelines used by oil and gas industry workers up there.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2022
That plan also calls for a series of 36 inch casings, or holes, to be drilled below ground as sheaths for the piles, but doing so previously resulted in sinkage and the work was paused in August.
—Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
This sinkage can burst pipes, crack foundations, and destroy roads, so engineers study the composition of potential landfill development sites to assess future stability and to develop designs that can account for settlement.
—Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
Differential sinkage is a constant concern for developers.
—Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
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“Sinkage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sinkage. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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