He towered above the nationalists with speeches that drowned their bid for independence.
She could feel the vibrations pounding from the car radio that drowned out her calls for help.
Big sweats, huge sweats, sweats that drowned and engulfed her, that was her campus life, sweats and the dining hall.
But in his head he heard a deafening roar that drowned out the whispers of cash and fame.
Suddenly they met in a huddle, threw their hands to the center, and let loose a ferocious scream that drowned out the 3,000 fans chanting "Slipknot".
Here is his description of the giant wave that drowned Merak: "This too was Krakatoa's most colossal wave, the biggest consequence of the biggest and final explosion.
For John Ruskin, stricken with religious doubt, it was the geologists and "those dreadful hammers" that drowned out "every cadence of the Bible verses".
But as they gathered this week, the players greeted the late afternoon with boisterous whoops, chants and hollers that drowned out the rattle of an adjacent railway and turned heads in the parking lot of a nearby machine factory.
Ms. Grimes, whose political experience is limited to a year and a half as Kentucky's secretary of state, did not stumble in the face of a "We want Mitch!" chant that drowned out much of her six-minute speech.
Most pronounced on the island of Malta, the gregale sometimes approaches hurricane force and endangers shipping there; in 1555 it is reported to have caused waves that drowned 600 persons in the city of Valletta.
And, oh, the bloody cellos – Savage is a skilful enough writer and director to have forgone the wash of mournful strings that drowned out countless passages over the two evenings.
