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Definition of "sank" []

  • A past tense of sink. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sank" in a sentence
  • "The word sank its talons into her numbed consciousness."
  • "My happiest revelation came at the end of the novel when two significant words of the title sank in: "Volume 1"."
  • ""The label sank a lot of money into making them a success - and it didn't work," a source told The Sun."