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Recent Examples of sunken The site of the former plant is now a large sunken rectangle of open space, with grass growing over earth, shattered concrete, and broken bricks. John Seabrook june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025 An extensive remodel unveiled a classic sunken fireplace that had been covered up by carpet. David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 5 June 2025 Another boater reported the sunken ship Wednesday afternoon to Brewster Fire and Rescue, which then notified the Massachusetts State Police and Massachusetts Environmental Police. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025 The most prominent art piece is a copper oak tree that stands next to the sunken living room. David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunken
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunken
Adjective
  • Alpine slides are similar but have a continuous, concave surface instead of a track.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 4 July 2025
  • High atop a particularly craggy one, the rainfall gets a toehold beneath soil clinging to a very steep and slightly concave slope of rock.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Trump is slightly underwater on immigration in the RealClearPolitics polling average, a change from earlier in his second term.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 July 2025
  • What was appealing about the 2018 film — its goofy sense of humor, its willingness to cast people like Dolph Lundgren to play an underwater king — is less endearing this time around, especially when the rest of the trappings are so familiar from approximately 15,634,523 other comic-book flicks.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • So much corporate messaging sounds completely hollow.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Some who craft epigrammatic verse can sound hollow, like slamming together tins in hopes that someone will infer meaning from the noise.
    Nick Ripatrazone July 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Like aquatic, art, and music therapy, golf is simply another modality to encourage play, engagement, and healing through joy and movement.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Ichthyosaurs were aquatic reptiles that resembled dolphins and reigned as formidable predators in the oceans between 250 million and 90 million years ago.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Screenshot from a July 1 TikTok video of a depressed golden retriever waiting for her dog dad to return 1 1/2 years after a breakup.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • Despite these efforts, the advertiser exodus of 2023 meant that X’s ad revenue was quite depressed.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Courtney has been pushing the Navy to adopt measures to expand what has become known as the submarine industrial base.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2025
  • It is expected the Chinese submarine force to grow to 65 boats by 2025 and 80 by 2035 because of an expansion of submarine construction capacity.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • One woman was found dead in a submerged car in Tom Green County, the San Angelo Police Department confirmed on social media Saturday.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Authorities recovered a submerged car with a body inside from the river that night during below-freezing temperatures.
    Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

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“Sunken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunken. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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