Sentence examples for was sunken from inspiring English sources
adjective
Caused, by natural or unnatural means, to be depressed (lower than the surrounding area) or submerged
Her face was drawn, and because her partial denture had been removed her mouth was sunken.
Mr. Gales's body was sunken into the mattress, still clothed but unrecognizable save for a tuft of hair.
Later, shown the corpse in a funeral parlor, he "looked towards his father's face and, seeing the blue-dented chin thrust upward, and the way the flesh was sunken behind the bones of the jaw, first recognized in its specific weight the word, dead".
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.
His face was sunken and his body seemed frail, yet his eyes stared at the camera with a look of inner strength despite the limitations of a physical body that could no longer walk.
His cheeks are sunken and deeply lined.
Eyes are sunken from a sleepless night.
My eyes were sunken, my forehead was flat.
Her eyes were sunken; her skin was sallow.
Her eyes were sunken, skin ashen, wrists bandaged.
