““She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.””
Kate Chopin
“It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.”
David Brown
“In the seventh inning, he got on top of the ball, and the ball sank hard and late again. He got three easy ground balls. So, he's getting there.”
Rick Anderson
“The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.”
Bible
“Silver, the head of the unborn sank down.”
Grorg Trakl