sunk
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of sink.
unsunk
-
a word derived from
sunk.
Example Sentences
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However, relief came at last, on that never-to-be-forgotten morning when Sir David Beatty and his admirals accepted the unconditional surrender of the German fleet and its unsunk submarines.
From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William)
Nimble old man, who for all emergencies has his light jest; and ever in the worst confusion will emerge, cork-like, unsunk!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
If History, driven upon Dismal Swamp with its horrors and perils, can get across unsunk, she will be lucky!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas
However, we are still unsunk, for which we should be properly grateful.
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
The Sinking Fund's unfathomable sea, That most unliquidating liquid, leaves The debt unsunk, yet sinks all it receives.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
