Sinks

Examples

• My heart turns faint, my mind sinks in darkness and confusion when I think of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The object glitters and sinks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Intensely astonished, Twemlow puts his hand to his forehead, and sinks back in his chair meditating. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If now the air pressure in the tube is restored, the water in the tube sinks again to the level of that in the cistern. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When, however, rain falls on a wooded slope, the action is reversed; a small portion runs off, while the greater portion sinks into the soft earth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If it had ever been here, its ashes alone would save me from the void in which my whole life sinks. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The pressure at an outlet decreases as the level of the water supply sinks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When professional power is aimed at, music sinks from the liberal to the professional level. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Their competition raises the wages of labour, and sinks the profits of stock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That conduct alone sinks him in a gulf of immeasurable inferiority. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She can't teach her mischief; she might teach it to some children, but evil rolls off Eva's mind like dew off a cabbage-leaf,--not a drop sinks in. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• On the left side, where the ground sinks and the wood is thickeSt. Did you run out again? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The fused metal sinks to a basin in the bottom of the furnace, and the slag or impurities run off above the level of the basin at the side of the furnace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Now, there are hundreds of combinations that form crystals, and every one of them, save ice, sinks in water. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As the lighter nitrogen evaporates, the heavier oxygen sinks in drops through the water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This latter factor appears as yet only at moments when the country is most deeply stirred; then it sinks back into the depths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It not unfrequently happens that the original purpose sinks into insignificance, and is almost lost sight of, as the invention becomes more fully developed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The trooper sinks upon a seat behind him, and great drops start out upon his forehead, and a deadly pallor overspreads his face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the _biscuit_ or _bisque_ form pottery is bibulous, the prepared glaze sinks into its pores and when burned forms a vitreous coating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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