Example Sentences

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A fireman told reporters the Equinox backpack with clothes, the laptop and other personal effects was found tied to a half-sunken tree trunk in the area that the two men were last seen on Sunday.

From Reuters • Jun. 13, 2022

If you see one half-sunken boat, once you start digging, you can bet there are more.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2022

He couldn’t know it in the pitch-black darkness, but just a few paces away lay his own half-sunken sailboat.

From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2020

Hundreds of half-sunken barges and speedboats are piled up near oil ports.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2019

The foot of the bridge was a half-sunken enemy galley with Dragonsbane painted on her prow, her bottom ripped out by one of the sunken hulks Tyrion had placed between the quays.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin