- past tense form of sink.
sank
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“Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven’s Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists” ranks No. 18 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
This photo is of Kirsty, and is from a series taken by Michelle Sank of young people from the Black Country in their bedrooms in 2017.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2022
In 2019, on the occasion of her 98th birthday, Polish-born Ella Blumenthal related her World War II experiences under the Nazis to documentarian Jordy Sank from her home in Cape Town, South Africa.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022
Jade Anna Sank and Daniel Seth Ross are to be married Dec. 17 at 501 Union, an event space in Brooklyn.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2017
Here for a moment he stopped and listened, Heard in her voice her heart's despair, Saw in her eyes the love that glistened, Sank on her bosom and rested there.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
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