How to use "sunk" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "sunk" in popular movie and book plots

  • A raiding party of six Nazi sailors are put ashore to obtain supplies but soon after, the U-boat is sunk in Hudson Bay by RCAF bombers.  - 49th Parallel (film)
  • Tubby and his men get aboard a ship, only to have it blown up and sunk before it can depart.  - Dunkirk (1958 film)
  • The term death ship refers to any boat so decrepit that it is worth more to its owners overinsured and sunk than it would be worth afloat.  - The Death Ship
  • The game opens with an introduction about a seaside town which was damaged by a cataclysm and consequently sunk into the depths of the earth.  - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
  • The plot centres on retrieving items from a Type XXI U-boat sunk off the Portuguese coast in the last days of World War II.  - Horse Under Water
  • They are nearly sunk several times until in 1943 they are finally torpedoed and forced to abandon ship.  - The Cruel Sea (novel)
  • Tokyo Rose mocks the mysterious pink submarine, while the Navy believes it to be a Japanese deception, ordering that it be sunk on sight.  - Operation Petticoat
  • In a climactic battle, a Japanese carrier guarding Midway is sunk and Midway Island is retaken.  - Settling Accounts
  • The story opens at the Bay of Kola, just after the Russian Mafiya have sunk the Fowl Star.  - Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
  • The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life".  - The Moviegoer
  • The freighter is later sunk by Navy gunfire.  - Them!
  • Eventually, sunk by debt, hunger and alcohol Coupeau and Gervaise both die.  - L'Assommoir
  • Before a launch can pick them up, both it and the supply ship are sunk by gunfire from an Allied warship over the horizon.  - Lifeboat (film)
  • The boat is sunk at the event after a collision with Czervik's larger boat.  - Caddyshack
  • A newspaper headline reveals that the Amindra has been sunk in the Channel by German torpedoes, killing all on board.  - The Long Voyage Home
  • Seven battleships are either sunk or heavily damaged.  - Tora! Tora! Tora!

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