Example Sentences

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We were submerging, and the manometer showed seventeen meters.

From The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative by Spiegel, E.

It seemed to her that the rain and the river, confounding their tumultuous waters, were submerging the frail house, the planks of which creaked in every direction.

From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules

The great chute, lined with moving water walls and floored with whirling foam, bellowed as if it were submerging the world.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell