Sentences with drown
drown
D d - Forty-eight people have drowned after their boat capsized during a storm. [VERB]
- We were drowning in data but starved of information. [VERB in noun]
- A seven year-old boy is missing feared drowned after eight people were swept out to sea off Victoria's south-west coast.
- Two children drown in river accident.
- Clapping drowned the speaker's words for a moment. [VERB noun]
- Their cheers drowned out the protests of demonstrators. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- He drowned his sorrows in drink
- To drown one's worries in drink
- He drowned his sorrows in drink.
- When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
- The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.
- We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
- He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
- The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.