Sentence examples for was drowned by from inspiring English sources

In October 1984, he was drowned by the police authorities.

A famous preacher with whom he had quarrelled was drowned by royal command.

Any conversation was drowned by the sound of sirens, as the campus police belatedly pulled up to the tower.

Much of this karst was drowned by rises in sea level at the end of the Pleistocene glaciation.

Passages stick: "Who was drowned by the snow/Which rose to the mouth of the sleeping sentry/The thaw will show".

See articleMeanwhile, a state-run newspaper in China alleged that an official who died during interrogation in the city of Wenzhou was drowned by Communist Party investigators.

Often his command of technique is drowned by special effects.

The politicians and public in those nations are worried about being drowned by other countries' debt.

THE thunderous applause that China has become used to has suddenly been drowned by catcalls.

We are relieved that his suffering is over, but our relief is drowned by our grief.

– were drowned by the mud that killed the three friends who had been working beside him.