Sentence examples for the drowned from inspiring English sources
verb
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
The drowned college student, whose look appears to be inspired by the drowned hotel guest in "The Shining," turns out to be a disappointment.
Of the burned and the drowned and the despised.
Daudet visited the bleak graveyard of the drowned.
The whole peninsula rests Encircled by a craving necklace Of the drowned.
Elsewhere, the islanders are building a second graveyard to house the bodies of the drowned.
Another book I read says there are only the drowned and the saved.
From her window, Papageorgiou could see the coastguard unloading body bags of the drowned.
The Letta government conferred posthumous Italian citizenship on the drowned off Lampedusa.
In Auschwitz, the drowned, those who are slipping away into death, drift in "an opaque inner solitude".
When it comes to the drowned and the saved, we know dereliction and duty when we see it.
