(1) Land near the city of Corcoran sank 13in in just eight months.
(2) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
(3) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(4) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
(5) When the nest temperature was raised to thermoneutral, the direction of pup flow reversed and an immobile animal sank to the depths of the huddle.
(6) As the reality of Putin's decision that he would return to the Kremlin next year sank in, one joke was doing the rounds: "In response to the charge that there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got plastic surgery."
(7) He said: 'Let's raise the red flag over the town hall', and my heart sank because I knew that it would be taken as a marker.
(8) Demand also sank in other major continental markets, falling 14.5% in France, 13.9% in Spain and 4.9% in Italy.
(9) Given how empty the sea is, it was a miracle that his distress signal, transmitted to the ever-watchful Falmouth Coastguard, was picked up by a Chinese supertanker whose crew plucked him from the water minutes before his boat sank.
(10) An intravenous bolus injection of 1 mg of naloxone was administered immediately before starting a routine hemodialysis session and was repeated when the patients' systolic arterial pressure sank below 90 mm Hg.
(11) Nielsen indicated that shoppers spent 1.6% less at the UK’s leading supermarkets in the four weeks to 13 September, while the volume of items bought sank 1.9%.
(12) I thought we had finally put it all behind us, but when the authorities told us recently it was likely to happen again, that was when our hearts sank.
(13) The bodies of 111 people have been found since the boat sank half a mile from Italian territory on Thursday.
(14) It was French opposition that finally sank the bid to seal a temporary nuclear accord, after three days of intense bargaining, in the early hours of Sunday morning, but Netanyahu was quick to claim credit.
(15) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(16) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
(17) The presence of these radionuclides at great depth could not be explained by Stokesian settling of small fallout particles and it was hypothesized that zooplankton grazing in the surface layers packaged these particle-reactive radionuclides into large, relatively dense faecal pellets which rapidly sank to depth.
(18) North Korea prefers sneak attacks, like the torpedo in March 2010 that sank the South Korean navy ship Cheonan : 46 died.
(19) As revenues sank 28.5% to €82.6m, it made an operating loss of €3.8m, down from a €4.7m profit last year.
(20) In 2001, Howard Katz , an examination of male midlife crisis, sank amid lukewarm reviews.
Tank
Definition:
(n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
(n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(3) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
(4) Between having Lily and promoting Fish Tank, Jarvis has done a lot of growing up in the past year.
(5) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(6) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(7) When estimates of milk loss were replaced by estimates based on bulk tank somatic cell counts, milk loss accounted for over 80% of the total cost of mastitis.
(8) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
(9) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
(10) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
(11) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
(12) The waterborne origin of these infections highlights the importance of maintaining clean water supplies, especially where storage tanks are used.
(13) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
(14) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(15) Aortic pressure and right-ventricular filling pressure could be adjusted independently of each other via two header tanks.
(16) Computer-processed signals were derived from 20 evenly spaced tank-surface electrodes, and a single, moving, equivalent cardiac dipole generator was optimally fitted to the recorded potentials for each 1-msec sampling interval.
(17) The group insists it is "an independent, non-partisan Scottish think-tank, research organisation and educational charity".
(18) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(19) Besides other advantages, the set provides an ICP monitoring, a pump device and a protection of the air filter of the collecting tank for safer transport.
(20) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."