Example Sentences

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Then he leaned out and clutched the floating satin bubbling and ballooning yet unsubmerged above the stagnant depths and drew it towards him.

From The Fortieth Door by Bradley, Mary Hastings

These men were like broken and scattered fragments of dykes, still unsubmerged and striving to hold back the waters of a flood.

From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by Fletcher, John Gould

Two hours or more passed before the unsubmerged, wooden portion of the wreck had been consumed by the flames, and at 11.30 P. M. the smoke-stacks of the ill-fated ship fell.

From The Boys of '98 by Otis, James

It was a flock of sheep congregated on an unsubmerged knoll in the middle of the torrent.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

As there were thirty or forty feet of deep pools and eddies between the rocks on which she was stuck and the nearest stretch of unsubmerged boulders, unloading was a particularly awkward piece of work.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)