Utiliser "sinking" dans une phrase

1. Tiny Robot Archimedes was unable to make calculations about the water's movement while he was sinking, though he did record the mating patterns of several kinds of fish

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2. It was like sinking into a flashing mist

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3. I could feel my heart sinking at the bitterness of final separation, but there was nothing else I could do

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4. Son was now waist deep in quicksand and sinking

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5. sinking in fits and starts down the outside of the bowl,

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6. as a result of the sinking

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7. the sinking of knees, the resting of elbows on hard,

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8. with a sinking tremor

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9. Naked, I tried to look confident but plodding along the shoreline sinking into sand was like waddling along a tight rope without any sense of balance

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10. The sun is sinking towards the horizon before we come in sight of the township where Berndt intends us to spend the night

11. We must have hit another of those fallen trees … the first time had me in a flat panic believing the vessel was sinking! Boy, had I felt a fool!

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12. Underfoot, bits of rock crumbled and splashed into the water, sinking past fishes in the swaying seaweed to the greenness down beyond

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13. By the time that he did make the connection he was sinking to the floor and losing consciousness, his head and shoulders wrapped in an old bath towel that his step-mother had thrown over his head as she struck to soak up the inevitable streams of blood

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14. It is wonderful sinking back into the car seat as Alastair drives off

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15. time that he did make the connection he was sinking to the floor

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16. saw a small boat, sinking down into the water

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17. Once he did call in they would probably want to keep him talking just about constantly, what would he do then? With a sinking feeling he realized that the situation wasn’t going to respond to wishful thinking

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18. Joe began to scoot, sinking his fingers into the snow-covered ground,

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19. ’ There was a sinking feeling in

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20. This incident was leaving a sinking feeling in her guts

21. anxious about his boat sinking under the combined weight

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22. I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my

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23. " And she put him in the sledge beside her, wrapped the fur round him, and he felt as though he were sinking in a bank of fresh white snow

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24. The effect of such regulations, however, is not near so durable in sinking the workman's wages below, as in raising them above their natural rate

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25. It was with a sinking heart that I reentered Holmes's bedroom

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26. It was slanted but it was not sinking lower

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27. Desperate, she gathered more power, increasing the force of her efforts, sinking her energy deeper into Whimly's twisted soul

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28. Diminish the real opulence either of Holland or of the territory of Genoa, while the number of their inhabitants remains the same ; diminish their power of supplying themselves from distant countries; and the price of corn, instead of sinking with that diminution in the quantity of their silver, which must necessarily accompany this declension, either as its cause or as its effect, will rise to the price of a famine

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29. She fell to the blackened earth, her long fingers sinking into the blood drenched soil

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30. The fact that his entire memory, all his most private experiences, had been distributed like a cheap rental movie was still sinking in

31. The opinion, therefore, that silver is continually sinking in its value, seems not to be founded upon any good observations, either upon the prices of corn, or upon those of other provisions

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32. ; of the capital which the undertaker of a mine employs in sinking his shafts, in erecting engines for drawing out the water, in making roads and waggon-ways, etc

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33. I watched them plummet with a sinking heart

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34. It began to fold into my physical self by plying my skin and sinking through my pores, nourishing its hunger on my soul

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35. nothing to be found at the place of the sinking

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36. I burst forth as a panther, sinking my teeth into the Arch demon's feet and dragging until he fell backwards

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37. In Europe, for example, it is supposed, without much foundation, perhaps, that during the course of the present and preceding century, they have been constantly, but gradually, sinking in their value, on account of the continual importations from the Spanish West Indies

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38. in the pound land-tax, and what was annually borrowed of the sinking fund

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39. To dream that you are sinking in quicksand indicates feelings of insecurity

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40. But he could not fully dispel the nagging, sinking feeling

41. Eventually, the crowd stopped growing and a sinking realization swept over me

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42. It amounted to more than ninety millions sterling, including not only the new debt which was contracted, but the two shillings in the pound additional land tax, and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund

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43. This policy, therefore, discourages agriculture in two different ways; first, by sinking the real value of its produce, and thereby lowering the rate of its profits; and, secondly, by raising the rate of profit in all other employments

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44. So great a revenue might certainly have afforded an augmentation of £680,000 in their annual payments ; and, at the same time, have left a large sinking fund, sufficient for the speedy reduction of their debt

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45. Kevin took a deep breath, looked at her for a moment and said, “We’re sinking aren’t we?”

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46. The ordinary revenue of Great Britain, for example, including not only what is necessary for defraying the current expense of the year, but for paying the interest of the public debts, and for sinking a part of the capital of those debts, amounts to upwards of ten millions a-year

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47. Had any considerable alteration been made in the standard of the money, either by sinking the same quantity of silver to a lower denomination, or by raising it to a higher ; had an ounce of silver, for example, instead of being coined into five shillings and two pence, been coined either into pieces which bore so low a denomination as two shillings and seven pence, or into pieces which bore so high a one as ten shillings and four pence, it would, in the one case, have hurt the revenue of the proprietor, in the other that of the sovereign

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48. This saving left a considerable surplus in the produce of the different taxes which had been accumulated into those funds, over and above what was necessary for paying the annuities which were now charged upon them, and laid the foundation of what has since been called the sinking fund

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49. , which reductions still further augmented the sinking fund

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50. A sinking fund, though instituted for the payment of old, facilitates very much the contracting of new debts

51. Whether the sinking fund of Great Britain has been more frequently applied to the one or to other of those two purposes, will sufficiently appear by and by

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52. Sinking funds have generally arisen, not so much from any surplus of the taxes which was over and above what was necessary for paying the interest or annuity originally charged upon them, as from a subsequent reduction of that interest ; that of Holland in 1655, and that of the ecclesiastical state in 1685, were both formed in this manner

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53. ; the sinking fund was increased, and some part of the publie debt was paid off

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54. The sinking fund has, no doubt, been considerably augmented since the peace, by the debt which had been paid off, by the reduction of the redeemable four per cents to three per cents, and by the annuities for lives which have fallen in; and, if peace were to continue, a million, perhaps, might now be annually spared out of it towards the discharge of the debt

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55. The sky was beginning to darken and they could see the last rim of light in the western sky where the sun was sinking fast below the distant silhouette of trees

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56. The CSS Alabama began the next year by sinking USS Hatteras near Galveston, Texas, on January 11, 1863

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57. This great sinking fund, too, might be augmented every year by the interest of the debt which had been discharged the year before ; and might, in this manner, increase so very rapidly, as to be sufficient in a few years to discharge the whole debt, and thus to restore completely the at-present debilitated and languishing vigour of the empire

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58. We watched but no more waves or reserves emerged from our trench lines the horror of the debacle that had just happened must still have been sinking in to those still in the trenches

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59. “Many religious people understood that, if they wanted to retain their way of life, they would be better off sinking into the background

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60. “Someone broke in and tried to shoot me,” I replied, the implications of that just sinking in

61. “Is it in French?” I asked, my heart sinking

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62. Larkey spun around to see her ship one last time as it began splitting in half and sinking into the sea

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63. Since it would assuredly have resulted in the loss of one or more vessels, the sinking of which would have closed the channel, Admiral Sampson declined to make the attempt and on July 4th, Shafter cabled to Washington as follows:

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64. The certain sinking of the burning steamer in the tortuous channel of the harbour would have effectually barred out the navy, completing the work already attempted by the enemy

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65. But instead of rescuing him, the helicopter circled overhead once, then unexpectedly disappeared out to sea, leaving him alone with the waves and the fast sinking inflatable

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66. Sinking her claws into the dry ground, she turned sideways to the dog, scooping a pawful of earth into its face

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67. The Afrikaner Nation lost his manhood, and the rats started to leave the sinking boat

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68. Kay fought to keep from sinking to her knees in abject horror

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69. As with terrorism the submariners need to succeed only once but unlike terrorism sinking the carrier is a game changer to your plans

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70. Sinking another can of beer, I studied the book again

71. "What now?" I asked with a sinking sensation

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72. "What's going on?" I whispered, a sinking sensation starting in the pit of my stomach

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73. "Give me that!" I said, snatching it from his hand, my heart sinking as I realised it was a contract

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74. Sinking to the floor, he sat with his back against the kitchen cupboard, head bowed, the scar on his top lip clenched between his teeth, the shame and anger from the past overwhelming him once more

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75. The shadows cast by the sinking sun were long on the ground

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76. He had this sinking feeling that one man couldn’t possibly lower them on a rope; not hundreds of feet

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77. The unfailing strength in those hands had directed Mystic's hydraulic steering system through weather that was sinking other boats around us

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78. Crossing over the room in a couple of long strides, he passed so closely to Macey that she flinched, already feeling the cold blade sinking into her stomach

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79. sinking into the

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80. Dread, fear of the unknown, a queasy, sinking feeling

81. Molo could only nod in mute acceptance and walk behind the Pilgrim, the sound of his feet sinking in the desert sand, keeping pace with the beats of his heart

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82. He walked as silently as possible, much more slowly than the Pilgrim, his feet sinking in the sand effortlessly

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83. The cold was sinking back into my bones, and I thought it would cause injury to my flesh soon

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84. I felt the cold sinking into my flesh again, realized that my fingers and toes were numb

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85. He placed his prize in a blue bucket and then grabbed two VB beers and put them in the crab pot, sinking it in to its original position in the river

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86. “Would there be no way to save her, then?” asked Colling with a sinking heart

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87. Best as she was sitting sinking into deep self-pity, Ebira appeared with something in her hands that very well could be a plate full of food

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88. Now the sun was sinking in a fiery ball behind those jagged mountains

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89. Sinking: Not totally ministering in the Spirit

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90. In this dry day,my heart is still sinking,

91. “What?” whimpered Tifa, the sinking realisation that their

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92. I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach

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93. blew his whistle a second time, her heart sinking

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94. shadows, he felt a sinking sensation in his stomach, his brain

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95. Tifa, her tone sinking as she nodded towards the withering oak,

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96. But before she could say anything I got a sinking feeling as the camera captured Shamansky reaching under Jennifer’s skirt to compress her inner thigh wound

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97. “Yes,” she breathed, stomach sinking lower than it had been

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