Sentence examples for it sank like from inspiring English sources
Men who ached for fame grew disillusioned once they had secured it, and became again desperate for its dazzle when it sank like a setting sun and work offers dried up.
After that, it sank like a stone.
The first effort was inauspicious: upon launching, it sank like a stone.
As for "The Electric Lucifer," Haack's sole major-label outing, it sank like a stone.
She had her own show, The Stockard Channing Show, a sitcom with all the right impulses, but the wrong writers (for the first series) and then the wrong time slot (for the second); it sank like a bag of bricks and kittens.
"So many suns have turned the rows of stobs to cover crops and turned away: it sank like a stain into the hills that night.
It suspends its meaning, clause after clause, building up our expectations, till it sinks, like a punctured rubber duck, on "boomps-a-daisy".
But the confounding thing about light reading is that so much of it sinks like lead.
If it sinks like a rock, you're stuck with junk.
The split news feed rolled out in six countries as a trial bubble, and it sunk like a lead balloon.
And unless it sinks like a stone (always possible in China), then it'll earn around $45m this weekend and end the frame just over Civil War's lifetime total.
