Sentence examples for is drowned from inspiring English sources
verb
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
Often his command of technique is drowned by special effects.
He is drowned out by the shouts and general commotion.
Then it is drowned out by the phone.
Occasionally, it is drowned out by shouts of "Qué queremos?
One is driven off a cliff; one is drowned while bobbing for apples.
Fears: His voice is drowned out by the new kids on the political block.
His scream is drowned out by the roar of an aircraft that sweeps over the audience.
1921 — Michael, an undergraduate at Oxford, is drowned while swimming with a friend.
When rising water reaches this armor, as it inevitably does, the beach is drowned.
Reasoned debate is drowned out by manufactured controversy, mutated loyalty and small-mindedness.
The sound of honking motorbikes is drowned out by blaring television sets showing film trailers.
