Sentence examples for sink past from inspiring English sources

Suddenly, I felt my soul sink past the bottom of my heart.

Most of the image is taken up by expanses of red-brick floor and sunflower-yellow walls (much brighter than in real life) and the dramatic spatial plunge that stretches from a dish-filled kitchen sink, past the stove, table and chairs, glass cabinet and couch to the top of a seemingly distant, art-lined stairway.

As the style guide says: "Past tense sank, past participle sunk: he sinks, he sank, he has sunk".

And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin.

This protects it against catastrophic losses like those that sank past challengers to the Hollywood majors (such as United Artists when "Heaven's Gate" flopped in 1980).

You've seen the headlines; you know that over the last couple of years, a growing number of startups has gone public at valuations below where they were valued as privately held companies (or sunk past them quickly).

But if you hope to live a life outside of your residence once the sun sinks past the horizon, heed the following words closely.

But lawmakers who currently oversee the agency's budget "could be a stumbling block if they feel they are losing control," he says noting that such problems helped sink several past efforts to move the agency.

A fat, groggy sun sinks down past the horizon.

At least, he could only assume that something under the bunker was actually what was eating him alive – now he'd sunk down past his knees into the thing – and he could only assume that it wasn't going to stop eating him because … it wasn't stopping.

The lightning bolt, it turned out, stood for electricity, and as he slowly sank in past his waist, the men turned to him and broke form, smiling slightly, knowingly.