What's the difference between soaked and sunk?

Soaked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Soak

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (2) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (3) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (4) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
  • (5) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
  • (6) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (7) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (8) In this model, an endotoxin-soaked thread is implanted in the adventitia along the ventral side of the rat femoral artery.
  • (9) Aflatoxin content in grains increased considerably with the increase in duration of soaking.
  • (10) He's got a very, very good memory and he soaks it all up."
  • (11) Sponges soaked in distilled water were implanted as controls.
  • (12) They had soaked up his blood into the soles of their boots and stamped it around in footprints that anyone who cared to might examine.
  • (13) A sample is extracted with tetrahydrofuran containing an internal standard, by sonication or overnight soaking.
  • (14) A video, seen by Guardian Australia but which we have chosen not to publish, shows Omid standing in a clearing, soaked in a liquid believed to be accelerant.
  • (15) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
  • (16) Over the same period, employment in the private sector increased by 104,000, more than soaking up public sector job losses.
  • (17) The other structures were equilibrium experiments carried out by soaking crystals in substrate containing solution.
  • (18) There was no significant change in phytic acid content of beans after soaking at 25 degrees C for 22 hours.
  • (19) Central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements after instillation of H2O2 into the cul-de-sac and after wearing H2O2 soaked soft contact lenses (SLC) for 2 h using 60 ppm, 100 ppm and 300 ppm H2O2.
  • (20) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.

Sunk


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Sink
  • (p. p.) of Sink
  • () imp. & p. p. of Sink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When we trained on it, my heart sunk,” Coleman said after his side began their Euro 2016 campaign with a nervous victory.
  • (2) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
  • (3) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
  • (4) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (5) A later investigation suggests the boat was sunk by a torpedo launched from a North Korean submarine.
  • (6) On the left, meanwhile, we feel our way towards a progressive alliance much more timidly, even when we know we’re sunk without it.
  • (7) There's little question that the objections to its pro-torture depictions and CIA propaganda were what sunk the film.
  • (8) In fact Miliband was more Blairite than Blair in opposing Cameron’s referendum wheeze, since Blair had conceded the principle over the EU’s aborted constitution, sunk by French and Dutch voters in 2005 who gave him a get-out card.
  • (9) He failed to recover from a disappointing opening eight holes and on the par-five 9th Woods slightly overshot the green with his second shot, sending his chip from the first cut well left of the pin.He sunk the remaining putt to card his first birdie of the day but then pulled his tee shot at the 10th well left and played the back nine one over par, starting with two bogeys before clawing back to finish tied for sixth place.
  • (10) Chinese investors have sunk about $38bn (£29bn) into everything from prime London real estate to banks and football clubs since 2005, according to figures from the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
  • (11) The teams were tied, 43 each at the half, and there was virtually nothing to separate them at the three-quarter mark, either: San Antonio entered the final 12 minutes protecting a one-point advantage despite a purple patch from James, who sunk two three-pointers in a minute.
  • (12) Suárez was a target for photographers after he sunk his teeth into the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in April, an act that resulted in a 10-match ban from the Football Association and, he has now confirmed, prompted him to reconsider his future in English football.
  • (13) It would be foolish for Facebook, which only started in 2004, to try to go up against that sunk cost.
  • (14) The night before the vessel, al-Awda ("The Return") was due to sail, it was blown up and sunk in Limassol harbour, Cyprus — with no loss of life or political embarrassment.
  • (15) In supermarkets, profitability has sunk from [margins of] 5% to 2% in five years and now we face significant new cost pressure.
  • (16) In antimicrobial test, each sample (one fourth inch in diameter) sunk in the broth that had been innoculated with periodontopathic bacteria showed growth inhibitory activity after 48 hr anaerobic incubation.
  • (17) It was a tough kick, we weighed up the options, we wanted to go for the win, the two driving mauls before we made some good ground and we thought if we got in a good position we could go for a win.” Wales are bobbing in pool of death while England are not sunk just yet | Eddie Butler Read more So it goes.
  • (18) Submarine danger: I don't think there will be much of that, they are concentrating on the invasion scheme, and besides, no passenger ship has been sunk for ages.
  • (19) Two tibial components have sunk and have been revised at The London Hospital.
  • (20) "It hasn't quite sunk in yet," Lewis said afterwards.