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sunken

Speech parts

1. sunken - Adjective

2. sunken - Verb

Derived from sink

4. sunken - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Sink

Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. Hugo Chávez

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. Frederick William Faber

Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. John Keats

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. Deb Caletti

It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died. Markus Zusak

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