Sentence examples for sunken by from inspiring English sources

"It's a last resort," said one participant, James Fletcher, who is 58 but looks far older, his cheeks lined and eyes sunken by decades of heroin abuse.

LTTE Sea Tiger supply freighter sunken by the Sri Lanka Air Force.

The Miriam was sunken by a submerged log, while the schooner Ed Gibbs was broken into pieces near La Porte.

While in the Bay of Campeche, the shrimp boat Celestino Arias was sunken by strong waves generated by Janet after it suffered engine failures.

"With mudjacking, we can raise a slab that has sunken down by pumping a slurry into the space beneath the slab," Mr. Murray said.

In some species the spiracles are sunken and protected by a circlet of hydrofuge (water repellent) hairs or by a fine-pored membrane, whereas in other aquatic heteropterans the spiracles are closed and only one or two pairs function in association with either diving air storage chambers or the base of a snorkel-like breathing tube that breaks the surface film of the water.

He was an experienced business owner in Scotia, N.Y., near Albany, who had spent a year investigating a promising franchising opportunity — a business that raised sunken concrete slabs by pumping cement slurry beneath them, a technique sometimes known as mudjacking.

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Between the trees, sunken paths hollowed out by centuries of hooves and boots lead to hedge-fringed meadows of wheat, corn, barley and rapeseed.

Her eyes were sunken; her skin was sallow.; (DRAWINGS BY DAN WINTERS) (MM22).

The rink was built sunken into the ground, surrounded by tiny hills.