Example Sentences

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Drowned out in all the hoopla, however, were some rather sobering caveats.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023

But her keenly observed descriptions of water, from the sewers to the ocean, are what make “The Drowned Woods” — a young-adult book perfectly suitable for an older audience — something to savor.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2022

Ballard's "The Drowned World" in 1962, which imagined a flooded, almost uninhabitable planet, novelists began to carve out visions of a future in which climate disaster has already taken place.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2022

Ballard, “The Drowned Giant” is rendered here in mostly realistic animation, with the giant’s clean-shaven cheeks, tidy fingernails and muscular chest shown in aching detail.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2021

“Thanks for bringing him. Sarah and Rose went to do a flyover of the Drowned Forest, see if they can find any stragglers. You get something to eat?”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia