Sentence examples for sunk within from inspiring English sources

More than 300 men, women and children were feared drowned when their boat caught fire and sunk within sight of the Italian island of Lampedusa early on Thursday.

Kormoran was the only Axis surface ship to be sunk within the Australia Station, and 78 of her crew were killed.

An indication of the effectiveness of air tactics was the fact that very few Allied ships were sunk within 600 miles of British waters by late 1942.

Nagara and her escorting destroyers responded effectively with accurate gunfire and torpedoes, and destroyers and were hit and sunk within 10 minutes with heavy loss of life.

Four Egyptian Osa class missile boats confronted six of them, leading to Battle of Baltim in which three of the Egyptian missile boats were sunk within forty minutes, with no Israeli casualties.

Pits sunk within the courtyard of the acropolis revealed 5425 ceramic fragments, 22 fragments of zoomorphic figurines, together with stone and shell artefacts, animal bones and waste flint chips, all dated to the Terminal Classic.

It then sank within minutes.

The Robin Moor split apart and sank within minutes.

The ship sank within waters claimed by China as its economic zone.

The warship sank within a few minutes, taking the lives of 46 sailors.

They did all in their power to arrile us … my heart sank within me".