sink in
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Let that ratio sink in: For every dollar Apple spent imagining the future, it spent nearly four dollars buying back its own past.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
Back in Iran, a sense of the inevitable had begun to sink in for many there.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
But that’s before the effects of higher oil sink in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
I was pretty nervous every show, and then you sink in and you start to be able to play with the audience a little bit.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
It takes a few seconds for the words to sink in.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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