Sentence examples for drowned upon from inspiring English sources

Many paratroopers were killed by fire before they hit the ground, and many more were drowned upon landing in the flooded zones.

On October 1, 1864, weighed down by gold sovereigns, she drowned upon the sinking of a small boat in which she was attempting to run the federal blockade of Wilmington, North Carolina.

The title song on "Tempest" is a 14-minute chronicle of the 1912 sinking of the "Titanic," in a Celtic-country waltz with 45 telegraphic verses: They battened down the hatches But the hatches wouldn't hold They drowned upon the staircase Of brass and polished gold.

As an audience, we witness Noah descend into chaos and moral confusion as the burden of saving humanity and creation, and allowing the majority of humanity to drown, rests upon his shoulders.

The screams from the roller-coaster drowned out my own screams upon paying four quid for a bottle of water.

Higgins drowned in the reservoir, and upon learning of his fate Hindley was deeply upset, and blamed herself for his death.

this instinct has been plowed under, drowned, almost beaten to death, fired upon and almost worse, forgotten.

Despite all of these people, and many throughout the world, calling upon God, my voice would not be drowned out, and neither would anyone else's.

It's the perfect late night record: a relentless, one-note bassline, drowned by layers of droning noise, but is never reliant upon aggression. .

After a decade, in 278 B.C., upon learning that Chu had fallen to Qin, Qu drowned himself in the Miluo River, in Hunan Province.

According to legend, any child that happens upon her ghost is pulled into the river and drowned.