Sentence examples for were sinking in from inspiring English sources

The lessons were sinking in.

My soaking feet were sinking in mud.

After a while, I looked around to see that all my brothers and my mother were sinking in blood.

Bajić told the Americans that essentially all state-owned enterprises in Croatia, meaning many of the biggest companies, were sinking in sleaze.

There was no sense of urgency as long as those in the lower ranks were sinking in the mortgage muck and the middle class was raiding the piggy bank otherwise known as home equity.

He doubled off Josh Beckett to start a three-run spurt in the first inning, and it seemed as if his pointed words from Thursday's team meeting were sinking in.

They were sunk in reinforced concrete.

His own integers were sunk in a prosperous gated colony in New Delhi.

Six small schooners were sunk in Montego Bay, and others were lost round the coast.

"Think of how many ships were sunk in the First and Second World Wars.

Fishing boats were sunk in Louisiana.