Sentence examples for materials were sunk from inspiring English sources

The use of artificial reefs in the Arabian Gulf have a history extending back over a century, when date palm trunks, stones, pottery and other materials were sunk in coastal areas to enhance fish catch.

Five ships were sunk.

After being stripped of salvageable materials, the ship was sunk as an artificial reef off the North Carolina coast in 1990.

But we were sinking.

The followup to Self's widely admired (and Booker-shortlisted) modernist novel Umbrella features an actual incident from the second world war, when the ship that had delivered the Hiroshima bomb materials to the South Pacific was sunk by a Japanese submarine.

Then you're sunk.

"Why?" "We're sunk.

He was sunk.

Windows 8 is sunk.

Now it's sunk.

The company is sunk.