How to Use sunk in a Sentence

sunk

adjective

• But your past is a sunk cost bias.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• Your instincts versus the sunk cost of your trip.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
• With Aguirre’s plan, the efforts will become a sunk cost.
  — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
• Once a team trades draft capital to acquire or retain a star, those picks become sunk costs.
  — Spencer Harrison, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• The two aircraft lost at sea totaled more than $90 million of sunk equipment.
  — Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2026
• Economists call it the sunk cost fallacy.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Jones the businessman comprehends the concept of a sunk cost.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Abate said that Public Squares won't be profiting from the record; there will be some sunk costs.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Amazon has too many sunk costs here and Seattle offers too many advantages.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• With four losses in four games the Broncos haven’t started so slow or sunk so low since 1999.
  — The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• Then there’s the sunk cost of picks already spent trying to find The Guy — picks that weren’t used for help up front for Bedard.
  — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 24 June 2026
• People in sunk cost relationships spend a lot of time reminiscing about happier days long past.
  — Gabrielle Kassel, SELF, 29 Jan. 2026
• This mindset, however, can also foster a sunk cost fallacy.
  — Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
• And even though the money is a sunk cost, the Rangers do not have a history of releasing players with multiple years left remaining on long-term contracts.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2020
• The federal government essentially operates on a cash accounting system and these were a sunk cost.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
• That will require creating strategies with optionality and a willingness to ignore sunk costs.
  — Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• In my experience, mid-market companies operate with leaner teams and cannot absorb the sunk costs of a multi-month implementation with room for scope creep, reworks and failures.
  — Prathamesh Bhingarde, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Stress and resentment often builds within relationships driven by sunk cost thinking, which increases within the relationship.
  — Gabrielle Kassel, SELF, 29 Jan. 2026
• That’s a sunk cost, an expense that firms wouldn’t have undertaken if Brexit hadn’t forced them to shell out on new offices and alternative legal and regulatory arrangements.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
• With his contract essentially a sunk cost and the team’s top pitching prospects on the cusp of debuting at some point this season, Zimmermann will have to stay healthy and pitch effectively to stick in the rotation.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2020
• Both people are highly likely to obsess over their sunk cost — law school tuition and time served for the lawyer, the original investment amount for the stock picker — in a nonconscious desire to justify their earlier decisions.
  — Gary Belsky, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2016
• With consistent insight, leaders can shift from reactive spending to strategic investing—turning technology from a sunk cost into a competitive advantage.
  — Kathleen Hurley, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025