Sentence examples for But sinks from inspiring English sources

You were supposed to puke in the toilet, but sinks were easier.

The chief flooder is Mickey James Gandolfinii), who flies in to do a job for Cogan but sinks into a marsh of his own making.

Whereas subsequent disclosure, with its painful results, sows explosive momentum through a story that otherwise bogs down as it burrows through so many layers of insight that it all but sinks out of sight.

When Dad stands up in church to denounce immigrants and Jews, all the film's delicacy and subtlety seem to vanish, and his fury leads to a tragedy that seems so schematic and improbable that it all but sinks the picture.

Dean Price, the farmer's son, starts adulthood as a Reagan supporter, opens a handful of fast-food restaurants, then glimpses the future in biodiesel and recycled cooking oil and briefly becomes a green-energy hero, meets Barack Obama and votes for him, but sinks back into bankruptcy and apocalyptic visions of America once the oil runs out.

Initially, the mass floats, but sinks up to 12 hours after laying, or when disturbed.

But sink schools exist already.

For a ha'porth of tar, their ship all but sank.

John Yudkin's scientific reputation had been all but sunk.

"The Hold-Up Man," retitled "The Beloved Bandit," toured the provinces but sank before reaching Broadway.

He missed the first but sank the last two for the margin of victory.