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was sunk
verb
Past participle of sink
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"was sunk" is correct and usable in written English.
This verb phrase is most commonly used to indicate that something has been defeated or destroyed. For example, "The pirate ship was sunk by the British navy."
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I was sunk.
Arizona, which was sunk in Pearl Harbor.
The ship was sunk and they drowned.
Spain was sunk by the collapse of real estate.
One was sunk and the other was set on fire.
Irreversible de-industrialisation meant his community was sunk.
In the morning the battleship Invincible was sunk.
British cinema was sunk in a collective national diffidence.
The battleship Musashi was sunk in October 1944 and the battleship Yamato was sunk in April 1945.
It was sunk by a loss of £8 billion, or 0.3% of its assets.
She sailed on the Penland until it was sunk by enemy bombs.
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