"sunken area" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a depressed or lower part of the ground or a room. Example: The living room has a sunken area which makes it feel more spacious and adds a unique architectural feature to the space.
The first, just below the office entryway, is a sunken area called the Hollow.
Jeff Walls's large-scale, back-lighted transparency titled "Sunken Area" is a departure from his more familiar, strange urban dramas.
A sunken area in the center of the dining room that you see when entering is known as "the pit".
When compared with his more notable, cinema-inspired works, "Sunken Area" appears benign because it refers to one of the simplest forms of Minimal Art: repetitive line.
There is a sunken area, reached by a number of steps, and when the subject feels sufficiently relaxed, they descend to the lower level to deepen that feeling.
At the house's very center is a round, sunken area the Findlays refer to as the "love pit" but that could more aptly be termed the creation room.
Mudjacking, Mr. Murray said, costs about $3 a square foot with a minimum charge of about $300 and can also be used to lift sunken areas of driveways, garage floors and even brick or concrete stoops.
The white-washed geometric set, with raised platform seating and sunken areas filled in with brightly colored pebbles, was based on the 1958 comedy "Mon Oncle," by Jacques Tati, in which a French family lives in an ultramodern house in an otherwise traditional neighborhood.
They can also fill in sunken areas where tissue was removed during a lumpectomy.
Fungal diseases include wirestem, which causes weak or dying transplants; Fusarium yellows, which result in stunted and twisted plants with yellow leaves; and blackleg (see Leptosphaeria maculans), which leads to sunken areas on stems and gray-brown spotted leaves.
Apart from causing visible symptoms such as watery, sunken areas on the skin, chilling may also induce changes in fruit textural properties and flavour.
