Sentence examples for sinking onto from inspiring English sources

Yet she's also monumental, a formidable, almost epic presence even when she's wearily sinking onto a bench or shrinking down to a speck against the vast, dusty landscape.

So had my freedom of movement: to sit, I found myself sinking onto my shins like a camel; rising required pushing back on my heels and unfolding like a lotus.

You know the feeling: searching for something specific and stumbling on another book you've been curious about, then finding yourself, almost involuntarily, leaning against a wall or sinking onto a footstool, happily giving up the next half hour of your life.

I sank onto my living room sofa.

His moment of grappling with the world had passed, and his chin sank onto his chest.

They sink onto the sand, still faintly warm, radiating a lunar glow.

Signs wilted as cold, tired protesters sank onto the wooden benches to wait for their trains.

One by one, the great beasts sank onto their haunches on the sodden carpet.

In the early morning, at the Woodfield Mall outside of Chicago, Roberto Melendez sank onto a bench and rubbed his eyes.

Gratefully we sank onto a vine-shaded bench to eat our lunch of cheese, salami, bread, oranges, olives.

Afterwards she sank onto her chair and buried her face in her towel, and was still choking as she left the court.