Drown Sentence Examples

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  • Unless you want to go up and see if we can drown them out.

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  • A child can drown in literally inches of water.

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  • The faithful were encouraged to drown all tendency to thought in an ever-increasing flood of sensuous emotionalism.

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  • An immense collection, that at times threatens to drown his own muse.

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  • Put a lock on the toilet to prevent accidental drowning; toddlers can drown in a few inches of water.

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  • Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet, I tell you!... she almost screamed, so as to drown his voice.

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  • I never dreamt that Thou wouldst drown me here In the dark waters of this shoreless sea.

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  • At Ascalon there was a lake full of fish near the temple of Atargatis-Derketo, into which she was said to have been thrown together with her son Ichthys (fish) as a punishment for her arrogance, and to have been devoured by fishes; according to another version, ashamed of her amour with a beautiful youth, which resulted in the birth of Semiramis, she attempted to drown herself, but was changed into a fish with human face (see Atargatis).

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  • It only takes a couple of inches of water for a child to drown in.

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  • Add a white noise machine or simply place a fan in the room that will drown out disturbing sounds.

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  • So, it's not a good idea to drown your sorrows with a new wardrobe or a shopping spree at your favorite electronics store.

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  • I've taken hundreds and hundreds of great pictures at some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and I was always afraid a wave would grab me, pull me out and I would drown!

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  • These common garden pests can be lured away from strawberries with a variety of organic traps, including a little beer poured into a pan to entice slugs away from fruit and into the pan where they drown.

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  • Slugs are attracted to the smell and will fall into the cup and drown.

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  • An overwhelming amount of material can easily eat up a petite frame, causing a woman to essentially "drown" in the middle of it all.

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  • Such wretchedness as he endured has driven many men to shoot themselves or drown themselves.

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  • Pour it out indiscriminately; drown everyone around you in the vapid production of versified prose !

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  • It only takes a short time for someone to drown in a pool, and the memory of the event will be with you for a lifetime.

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  • These people often turn to products designed specifically to drown out the sound of snoring, especially if the snorer has tried several snore blockers without success.

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  • Another product to consider is a device that creates white noise, which will drown out the sound of the snoring.

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  • BioBrite is a clock that also functions as a white noise maker to drown out background noise.

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  • One flavor should not totally drown out the other.

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  • Most young children drown in swimming pools and bathtubs, while teens drown in natural bodies of water.

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  • Boys are 12 times more likely to drown than girls, especially during adolescence, when risk-taking behavior is more pronounced in males.

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  • The most common occurrence was that the supervising adult knew the child was in or near the water but was distracted long enough for the child to drown.

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  • Children can easily fall into the toilet and may drown in as little as 1 in (2.5 cm) of water.

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  • The biggest concern for many is whether the baby will drown during birth.

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  • One of the first things many adults discover in learning to swim is that the body is naturally buoyant and that it is actually harder to drown than expected.

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  • It takes as little as two minutes for someone to drown, but even if you survive a bad experience in the water, just four minutes of oxygen deprivation can cause permanent brain damage.

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  • The trick is to ensure that the petite frame does not "drown" in the material.

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  • He will drown himself in the throes of a passionate love affair and enjoy every second of it.

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  • A young child can drown in only a few inches of water, which means toilets and cleaning buckets are potential hazards.

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  • She takes over Aiden's body, and Rachel seeks help from Samara's mother only to find that the only way she can end this violent cycle is to drown Aiden, and with him, Samara.

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  • Drenching rains flood the animals' dens and either drown the creatures or force them to look for new territory closer to populated areas.

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  • This time, she leaves the light off and goes to bed, putting headphones with music over her ears to drown out the sounds.

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  • Other binge-eaters do not deal well with stressors like relationship problems, financial problems, or career difficulties, so they turn to food to drown out the unhappiness that these stressors bring.

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  • When Meg finds out she will lose the Phantom and the money, she runs away with Gustave planning to drown him.

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  • If alcohol is involved, even an accomplished swimmer could drown if he or she has had too much to drink.

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  • Nix are most often associated with women and seek to drown their victims.

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  • Rhyn snatched a pillow from the bed and covered Jade.s head to drown out the madness.

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  • Like maybe Jeffrey Byrne was just stupid enough to drown himself—half-drunk or sober.

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  • I'm going to end up killing myself with my air freshener fumes to drown out the smell.

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  • The cod family, which includes haddock, is too endangered and special to batter and drown in fat.

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  • They travel on and meet a cat that has also run away, from a cruel mistress who was planning to drown him.

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  • Pirate stations are particularly partial to the RSL frequencies because of the ease with which they can drown out their signal.

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  • Threats Because they are small, porpoises can be caught in fishing nets and then they drown.

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  • Late spring Greenland storms Drown thousands of harp seal pups, Nothing on TV.

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  • I know, a song about a young child that doesn't stick in the throat or drown in sickly sentimentality.

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  • But even then there was still time to drown the sorrows.

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  • Truth has become a teardrop in a thunderstorm of propaganda, and unless we act soon, the thunderstorm will drown us all.

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  • This caused people all over France to begin to slash at and drown one another.

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  • Being smart, I knew that rattly noises were n't good especially when they 're loud enough to drown out my new Enigma CD.

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  • Perhaps its time for us to live and let live and to drown out the strident voices of the minority who find this impossible.

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  • Your child could fall into the commode and accidentally drown.

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  • White noise-Place a fan or a white noise machine in baby's room to drown out outside noise and lull him off to sleep.

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  • About 1,500 children drown every year in the United States.

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  • Heresy is a spiritual thing,"he says," which one cannot hew with any iron, burn with any fire, drown with any water.

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  • It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats.

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  • He pretends to drown, sleeps on the beach for a few hours, and about dawn pedals off into the sunrise.

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  • Rhyn snatched a pillow from the bed and covered Jade's head to drown out the madness.

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  • For reasons known or unknown to us the French began to drown and kill one another.

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  • The same voice that got her into this mess and told her to drown herself had given her this reminder twice.  Katie sensed she wasn't safe where she was, but she didn't want to travel without Gabriel.

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  • If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

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  • Like maybe Jeffrey Byrne was just stupid enough to drown himself—half-drunk or sober.

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  • I shall slit the throat of the lying bitch Elizabeth and watch her drown in her own blood.

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  • The principal buildings of the university are Packer Hall (1869), largely taken up by the department of civil engineering, the chemical and metallurgical laboratory, the physical and electrical engineering laboratory, the steam engineering laboratory, Williams Hall for mechanical engineering, &c., Saucon Hall for the English department, Christmas Hall, with drawing-rooms and the offices of the Y.M.C.A., the Sayre astronomical observatory, the Packer Memorial Church, the university library (1897), dormitories (1907) given by Andrew Carnegie, Drown Memorial Hall, a students' club, the college commons, and a gymnasium.

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  • It is said that when he preached in the Dominican church of Metz, the bells were rung to drown his voice, but his voice outdid the bells, and on the next occasion he had three thousand hearers.

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  • Accounts differ as to his conduct at the execution, some stating that he ordered a roll of drums to drown the king's voice.

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  • Pretending a reconciliation, he invited her to Baiae, where an attempt was made to drown her on a vessel especially constructed to founder.

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  • Now, let's work on the prem­ise Byrne didn't drown and start trying to find where he is instead of pretending he didn't skip!

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  • I'm just gonna sit here and wait for the ocean drown me.

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