SUNK

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Traducere în limba română

sunk I. part. trec. de la sink¹.

sunk II. adjectiv

1. scufundat; coborât; afundat.

2. (tehn.) înecat; îngropat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I knew him from a boy, you see: and for my part, I have often wished that Miss Eyre had been sunk in the sea before she came to Thornfield Hall.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The old man's head had sunk back upon his chest.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

We had sunk into a melancholy silence, when suddenly Belcher sprang up from the table.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his lids now and glanced across at his visitor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He crept away, his face sunk upon his breast, like a broken man, while I put out the light and returned to my room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Sir Nigel sunk his eye and marked a cross on the side of his leg as he greeted this dangerous dame, and yet ere five minutes had passed he was hers, and not he only but his two young squires as well.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

His affection for her soon sunk into indifference; hers lasted a little longer; and in spite of her youth and her manners, she retained all the claims to reputation which her marriage had given her.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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