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Recent Examples of sunken At the time of the shooting, Kirk was addressing the audience from a sunken area surrounded by campus buildings. Amanda Castro gabe Whisnant anna Commander toby Meyjes shane Croucher john Feng joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 Andrew Pepler — the great-great-great grandson of James Carruthers, the shipping executive after whom a sunken freighter was named — said the news that the missing ship was finally found overwhelmed him with a flood of emotions. Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Smoke curls from sunken irori hearths inside centuries-old farmhouses—as fires crackle and miso simmers in clay pots. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 The park recommends a few diving locations, including Big Wall/Small Wall, Jenny’s Drift, and Junk, a sunken boat sitting at 60 feet underwater. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunken
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Adjective
  • In particular, the concave deck feels a lot like a skateboard and allows for better board feel and control—enabling Payne to do actual kick-flips on the wave.
    Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The bell and diaphragm devices have a wide, flat side for high frequencies and a smaller, concave side for low frequencies.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For starters, the thinking goes, an underwater developer has been booted from a math problem that was unsolvable.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Your animal friends will get tasty pumpkin treats and seasonal enrichment as jack o' lanterns become reefs for the underwater creatures.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But in reality, the facility utilizes physical and psychological torture to break the kids down, turning them into hollow shells who will gladly submit themselves to the institute’s leader, Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette).
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Chad Powers is hollow and unconvincing — especially the hints of Russ’ self-improvement and the inevitable vague flirtations between Chad and Ricky — but what if it’s all supposed to be hollow and unconvincing?
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • An algae bloom throws off the balance of the ecosystem that keeps the water clear and fish and other aquatic life healthy.
    Charlotte Germane, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Wildlife advocates say construction on the border wall in that area has severely damaged Quitobaquito, leaving not just the turtle but other aquatic species at risk.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The writer, known for her trailblazing work in confessional poetry, was clinically depressed and died by suicide at age 30.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Barbeau had been living alone, depressed and isolated since Jessica’s death.
    Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Last December, lawmakers passed a short-term funding bill that included $5.7 billion in emergency funding for the submarine industrial base.
    Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Despite the ongoing retirement of older hulls, the PLAN's submarine force is expected to grow to 65 units by 2025 and 80 units by 2035 due to an expansion of submarine construction capacity.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Her 20-year journey (and counting) to prove her hypothesis—and the exciting new discovery of a submerged ancient port several miles off the Mediterranean shore that was likely once part of that temple—are chronicled in Cleopatra's Final Secret, a new documentary film from National Geographic.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The submerged port, located near the ruins of the Taposiris Magna temple, just west of Alexandria, was uncovered by a team led by archaeologist Kathleen Martínez and Bob Ballard, a marine archaeologist known for his discovery of the Titanic.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Sunken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunken. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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