Sentence examples for sinking occurred from inspiring English sources

The most famous torpedo sinking occurred during the Battle of Mobile Bay.

The sinking occurred in March when, South Korean investigators say, a torpedo fired from a North Korean midget submarine hit the ship, the Cheonan, splitting it apart.

Pyongyang does not recognize the Northern Limit Line, the U.N.-drawn maritime boundary where the sinking occurred.

But in occurrence clause, it does not necessarily refer to the setting where the event in question occurs, e.g.: Lin (2008: 76) notes that the above example expresses that the event of the sinking of two boats occurred and that wǒmen cūnzilǐ ("our village") is not the place where the sinking occurred; it denotes the entity affected by the event.

This theory has been given partial support by Alexzandra Hildred, one of the experts who has worked with the Mary Rose, though she has suggested that the close proximity to Spitbank could also indicate that the sinking occurred while trying to make a hard turn to avoid running aground.

Langmuir circulation thus appears to be a relatively organized mixing mechanism wherein sinking occurs at the streaks and upwelling occurs between the streaks.

This "sink" occurs because trapped electrons are scattered to lower equatorial pitch angles by wave particle interactions.

The heat convergence is associated with sinking of midthermocline isopycnals, with maximum sinking occurring at potential densities σ0 = 26.4−27.3, which contain subtropical mode waters.

The latter, known as cover collapse sinks and cover subsidence sinks, occur where soils are thick and can be washed into the subsurface by the process of soil piping.

For example, the heat source involved in the Indian summer monsoon resides over the Plateau of Tibet and the eastern foothills of the Himalayas, while the heat sink occurs over the southern Indian Ocean and Madagascar, a region where relatively cloud-free air cools by emitting infrared, or "long-wave," radiation into space.

The phase plane can show either one sink, or two sinks and a saddle point as in the sinusoidal case, but again, excitation bandwith determines whether or not multiple sinks occur.