Sink in a sentence as a noun

I don't know the exact reason, but I guess it was an amazing time sink.

Ubuntu will sink or swim on the merits of its leadership.

Don't try to find something useful, just let the whole strange collection sink in.

Normally, I have to read sentences and paragraphs multiple times for them to "sink in".

Like this Asiana crew, it didnt compute that you needed to be a 1000 AGL at 3 miles and your sink rate should be 600-800 Ft/Min.

* It has everything including the kitchen sink but nothing in the decor matches.

The next step is to add a heat sink and fan to maintain a temperature gradient for operation longer than 20mins.

Sink in a sentence as a verb

I answered "a few critical things" ... but, for the most part, testing is tedious, frustrating, and a time-sink for me.

The ground conditions in Seattle require that the machine be able to control the rate of excavation at all times such that a large sink hole does not form due to uncontrolled loss of ground.

I grew to avoid movies labeled with the Starz logo, and my heart would sink when a feature would open with one, because I knew the experience was fleeting and I wouldn't be able to enjoy the content later.

We no longer have the time to let skills sink into the autonomous nervous system, as it were, and even if we try, the criminal in Redmond, WA, has a new, incompatible version out by the time we learned the last version...

And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn't support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren't big enough to move the gear through.> The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function.

Also, learn to change your oil and maybe your spark plugs; learn to cook; learn to replace buttons on your shirts; learn to fix your leaky sink and plunge your toilet; learn to plant flowers and tomatoes; milk a cow; shovel some dirt; experience driving a tractor, both the kind in a field and the kind that pull tons of cargo down the expressway ...Get out of your comfort zone, live for a minute in someone else's shoes and maybe, just maybe, you'll learn to respect the work that other people do and be willing to pay them for it - they deserve to be paid for their Work.

Sink definitions

noun

plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe

noun

(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide"

noun

a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof

See also: sinkhole

noun

a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

See also: cesspool cesspit sump

verb

fall or descend to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees"

See also: drop

verb

cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor"

verb

pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"

See also: pass lapse

verb

go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

See also: settle

verb

descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair"

See also: subside

verb

appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"

verb

fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off"

See also: slump

verb

fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank"

See also: slump

verb

embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"

See also: bury