Example Sentences

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In light of all this — against all my instincts — I am sinking into cynicism.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2019

Then there are those, like David Moyes, for whom every gesture and expression spells it out: I am in trouble, I am sinking, I am lost.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2014

"I am sinking," he said to his wife, and a few hours later he was dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am sinking of myself, and not about Mace or Longcluse, and I will not speak about eizer of zem.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

I am hovering there yet and am sinking, Francis, sinking—Save me!

From The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair by Green, Anna Katharine