Sentence examples for sinking away from inspiring English sources

Major Haar radioed to base: "I'm just sinking away.

Just look at Nigeria and South Africa, whose democratically elected leaders are slowly sinking away.

The monument doesn't battle repression by attempting to stand for ever, but by sinking away, embodying repression itself.

She sat on a bench on the platform and watched people arriving in great drifts, then sinking away again.

General Motors and Chrysler are sinking away, Toyota is losing money, but in Wolfsburg (the lair of the German car company), Volkswagen is planning to conquer the world (or at least be No. 1) by 2018.

When I was no more than a taunting half-meter away from the ducks, I realized the riverbed was sinking away under my feet, and I wouldn't be able to wade all the way to them.

I fear that my life is just going to sink away and I'll just be a homeless bum.

He watched his plane as it seemed to slowly sink away against the backdrop of blue water.

At home, his eyes were sometimes wide awake and popping; at other times, especially when he was eating, they sank away and almost disappeared.

Picture walking about in freezing, absolute darkness in a place that shrinks and expands, a place where staircases suddenly sink away to bottomless depths or compress to flatness.

At one point, an entire section of the stage sank away while an actor danced in military gear, the sound of explosions ricocheting through the theatre.