Sentence examples similar to drowned up from inspiring English sources

When one group refused to leave the ship last autumn, the smugglers rammed the vessel and sank it, drowning up to 500 people.

The "no" side has either refused to engage or, where it has spoken up, been drowned out.

Most of my fellow actors have been shot, stabbed, drowned, blown up or - in one case - simply sent off to get a pen and never seen again.

They do not want the moral shame of seeing pictures on their televisions throughout the summer of thousands of desperate people pleading to be rescued from sinking hulks, or the bodies of the drowned washing up on European beaches.

Some mobsters allegedly lured a caretaker into the very haunted mansion he caretakes, where he was stabbed, drowned, chopped up, and burned.

Lean start-ups get drowned out.

Banks, consultancies, Google, Microsoft and others spend tens of millions advertising to graduates and without the density of Silicon Valley, smaller start-ups are drowned out.

You end up drowning, or giving up.