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How to use drown in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Drown means to die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. Example: “When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.”

Examples of drown by meaning

verbTo die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

  • When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

verbTo kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

  • The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.

verbTo be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

  • We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.

verbTo inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

  • He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.

verbTo obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

  • The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

More sentences with drown

  • The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.From the entry strong
  • We heard the drowning woman's cries for help and ran to assist.From the entry cry for help
  • He uses the music to drown out other noises around him.From the entry drown out
  • She (was) drowned while trying to swim across the English Channel.From the entry drowned
  • She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.From the entry save
  • You won’t drown one lah. The water is very shallow.From the entry lah
  • Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.From the entry asphyxia
  • The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.From the entry flailing
  • For the renowned sushi chef, it was a guilty pleasure to eat fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce.From the entry guilty pleasure
  • Almost drowning put him off swimming.From the entry put off
  • It has chosen to live in a place where it is always at risk of being drowned.2022 May 23, Gregory Barber, “The Wetlands Are Drowning”, in Wired. From the entry chairmaker's bulrush
  • So, some very deflated people trudged back into the hotel bar to drown their sorrows.2021, Jordan Wylie, The Power of the Paddle. From the entry deflated
  • The band is starting, something lonesome, off-key, and drowning in reverb.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 265. From the entry reverb
  • The Pentecostals had drowned them with their discotheque music, frenzied dancing and ecstatic prayer.2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 162. From the entry Pentecostal
  • Babeldom drowned out any elaboration of the invitation, which was for the best.2014, Joan Hess, Deader Homes and Gardens, →ISBN. From the entry babeldom
  • Their singing is much heartier, and they begin to drown out their cousins.2012, Samantha Carter, “Hard Won Rewards”, in All Secrets Told, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry cocky
  • All the drowned sailors go down to sit in rows on the benches in Ran’s kitchen!”2011, Katherine Langrish, West of the Moon, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry seawife
  • Accounts still exist of sailors watching slack-handed from the gunwhales while one of their colleagues drowned.2010, Bella Bathurst, The Lighthouse Stevensons, →ISBN. From the entry slack-handed
  • I learned that kushtakas “saved” drowned people by transforming them into their own kind.2010, Mark A. Zeiger, Shy Ghosts Dancing: Dark Tales from Southeast Alaska, Yeldagalga Publications LLC, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry kushtaka
  • The curtains were wide open, and the rich orangey sunset drowned everything in evening colour.2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 95. From the entry orangey
  • How I exult when the moon-flood gushes, drowning the white snowspurt of the Devil's snake!2003, Kenneth Grant, Gamaliel The Diary of a Vampire, page 27. From the entry moon flood
  • She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.1998, Hélène Cixous, translated by Catherine Gillivray, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota, page 157. From the entry almah
  • Powerless to help, I had to watch both him and my horse drown.1998, J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young, A Vaquero of the Brush Country, page 120. From the entry ducking coat
  • Walking into the pitcher on downward pointing hairs, victims slip and drown in the funnel.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 551. From the entry pitcher
  • He might have been drowned, along with fat Basil, that arrogant merchant, when the swanship broke apart.1983, Dikkon Eberhart, Paradise: A Novel, Stemmer House Pub, page 14. From the entry swanship
  • A five-year-old girl was drowned in a water race near Goroka recently.1974 March 12, The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby, page 10, column 5. From the entry water race
  • Powers are seeking as before to drown the problem of disarmament in endless and futile wordmongering.1961, United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Documents on Disarmament, page 352. From the entry wordmongering
  • Jody looked out of the window and saw two drowned biddies floating about with upturned bellies.1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 19, in The Yearling, New York: Scribner, page 233. From the entry afloat
  • The whole cursed corporation ought to be rooted out and drowned in its own incombustible product.1916, Peter McArthur, In Pastures Green. From the entry flash point
  • Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.1910, Jack London, chapter 6, in Lost Face, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2011. From the entry elusive
  • It was useless to try and drown that Niagara of sound.1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 23, in The Half-Back. From the entry Niagara
  • A few loud kids can easily drown everyone else out.2023 November 1, Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The people who ruined the internet”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024. From the entry SEO
  • One fan shared a snippet from the music video wherein Jungkook and Han So-hee are drowning in water.2023 July 14, Anwaya Mane, ““THEY ATE THAT UP”: BTS’ Jungkook’s fans lavish praise on Bangtan’s maknae and Han So-hee’s crackling…. From the entry eat up
  • Yet some experts believe that voices from the far right are beginning to drown out those of the crunchy granola crowd.2020 June 18, Kiera Butler, “The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”, in Mother Jones. From the entry granola
  • Was she worried I might have drowned in the bath?2019 August 2, Max Value, Sayonara Japan, Lulu.com, →ISBN. From the entry perv

Meaning of drown

  1. verb To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
  2. verb To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
  3. verb To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

Full definition of drown

Questions about drown in a sentence

How do you use drown in a sentence?
Drown is used as a verb. For example: “When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.”
What is a short sentence with drown?
“Almost drowning put him off swimming.”
What does drown mean?
Drown means to die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drown (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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