Sentence examples for drowned themselves from inspiring English sources

Those who heard the recording of Susan Philipsz's clear, sweet voice singing that melancholy ballad "Lowlands Away" beneath the George V bridge during this year's Glasgow international art festival knows that it drifted out across the water to poignant effect, its lament for a drowned lover now seeming to commemorate all those who drowned themselves there in the Clyde.

As many as 600,000 of its citizens were slaughtered, while the rest either drowned themselves or else perished from starvation and disease.

A deep river, consisting of 25 tons of water, separated the actors from the audience and served as the site where all the men ultimately drowned themselves.

The Fed cannot be asked to vet potential recipients: that may be a job for the fund.America, Britain and other deficit countries have drowned themselves in cheap credit from abroad.

Wei County's museum offers a rare mention of the event as if it were one of a series of Boxer victories ("three or four thousand religious followers were killed or drowned themselves").

The scene between Victor and Pierre was scary, Serge's abdomen-chewing was grisly, but the creepiest moment was probably the revelation that those animals drowned themselves to escape some unknown terror.

A sect, drowning themselves in the water.

Nearly 400 protesters were arrested on August 5 to prevent them from drowning themselves deliberately.

Men go mad, start rebellions or choose to drown themselves in the sea.

In 1884, his wife suggested that tramps who were thinking of drowning themselves should become suicide bombers instead.

Here Larrey recounts the horrors of battle, describing mothers drowning themselves while embracing their children amid 30,000 dead: "A greater disaster than this has never been seen".