Sentence examples for being sunk from inspiring English sources

New oil wells are being sunk.

The first was ensuring that Allied convoys could cross the Atlantic without being sunk by Germans.

This is like the main ship in the fleet being sunk.

A barge was being sunk to block off a bayou, sending water out into marshland rather than into populated areas.

Of course, he has to avoid being sunk by the Shelter Island ferry, which nearly happened next.

And you should know that the mark 14 gun sight was the technology that saved the fleet many ships from being sunk.!!!

Fracking involves a whole lot of long steel pipes being sunk into rock formations thousands of feet beneath the ground in search of hydrocarbons.

Anyway, in that year of 1942 the real sea battle was occurring out in the Atlantic, with more allied ships being sunk than ever before.

He described the Obama order as a common-sense measure to prevent taxpayer money from being sunk into projects threatened by flooding.

Boris Johnson's former commissioner for cycling, Andrew Gilligan, said this week that the programme was being sunk by council's unwillingness to close off streets to rat-running traffic.

A final attempt to force a passage up the Dardanelles in March ended in three allied battleships being sunk and three badly damaged.