Sentence examples for had been drowning from inspiring English sources

For over a decade, Toys RR" Us had been drowning in $5 billion of debt, which its private equity backers had saddled it with.

The issue gained prominence when Al Gore, in his 2006 book about global warming, cited the study as showing, for the first time, that polar bears had been drowning in significant numbers while swimming to distant ice.

Minutes later, to sighs of relief, Miliband arrived and was led straightaway to the stage where an unfeasibly loud band had been drowning the assembled schmoozers for far took long.

She showered him with so many gifts that even his own lawyer admitted in court that he had been "drowning in gold" and briefly made him her sole heir.

Before the operation, the man's lungs had been drowning from pulmonary edema, a buildup of fluid that occurs in heart failure, said the surgeons, Dr. Laman A. Gray and Dr. Robert D. Dowling, from the University of Louisville.

I couldn't believe I had been drowning out my natural cues for so long!

Would that Dan Brown had been drowned at birth.

A post-mortem examination revealed she had been drowned and had been in the water for several days.

Soon after the event, the rumour gained ground that he had been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.

The day ended tragically when it was discovered that her grandmother's two Irish maids had been drowned in the lake.

J. Ray Barrett, deputy coroner, insisted that none had been drowned but that all deaths were due to exposure, pneumonia or heart disease.