Sentence examples for sinks like a from inspiring English sources
The lizard sinks like a stone.
A soldier in the field "sinks like a wave".
What is this 'but' that sinks like a small barbed hook into the middle of the sentence?
It suspends its meaning, clause after clause, building up our expectations, till it sinks, like a punctured rubber duck, on "boomps-a-daisy".
A vampy, jazzy "16 Tons" sinks like a stone; so does "He Stopped Loving Her Today," a piece of mawkishness so pure that switching to a female narrator doesn't alter the song's impact very much.
In a damning verdict on Robert Lowell, whose work "sinks like a breached tanker", Kleinzahler rejects the "notion of a cultural hierarchy" on which he feels that Boston Brahmin's work depends.
Plumes of this briny water "sink like syrup falling off a spoon," Dr. Wadhams said.
They'll sink like a lead balloon.
After that, it sank like a stone.
This show is sinking like a stone.
He added: "Sterling is sinking like a stone".
