COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sunk in gloom (= feel very sad and hopeless )
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She made several attempts at conversation but the boy was sunk in gloom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sunk
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If that check doesn't come today, we're really sunk .
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A well was sunk in the back garden, and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen.
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As we explored the roofless shells of the other buildings we remarked on the way each dwelling was sunk into the ground.
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The day the peony falls I will be sunk already in the sorrow of a lost spring.
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The porcelain industry, in which again much government money was sunk , was also a failure.
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The ship had not gone out to transport Scouts but to be sunk .
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Then it should be sunk into the gravel or sand base of the main tank.
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Then once, toward the end, when Dan was sunk in drink, Dunne asked him directly.
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They were passionate women, but their devotions were like roots; they were sunk into the past towards the old man.