sinking

/ ˈsɪŋkɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. a feeling in the stomach caused by hunger or uneasiness

   2. ( as modifier )

      a sinking feeling

Example Sentences

He drowned in a boat sinking on the Congo last year, aged 28.

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“They sent my father to the border with only the clothes on his back,” Alvarado, now 85, told me in Spanish while sinking into a comfy couch at his daughter’s well-kept Anaheim home.

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Congressional Democrats have said the quiet part out loud: They want the federal government to keep cutting massive checks to insurance companies forever, using your tax dollars to shore up the sinking ship of ObamaCare.

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The movie, which recounts the 1942 sinking of a Japanese ship carrying British prisoners of war and their rescue by Chinese villagers, boasted elements of a maritime epic.

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That demand drop led to the price of soybeans sinking to around $10 per bushel, not enough for farmers to break even.

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