6 sentences with 'sank'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sank and other words derived from it.
• « Napoleon also led an attack against Ottoman Turkish forces in Egypt in 1797, where he was initially victorious, but the British sank the French fleet behind him (he was later recalled to France, leaving most of his army behind in the process). »
• « After reports of a Turkish massacre of Greeks became public in Europe, the Holy Alliance demanded that Turkey grant independence to Greece. The Ottomans refused, so in 1827 a combined British, French and Russian fleet sank an Ottoman fleet. »
• « In June 1942, at the Battle of Midway, American forces sank four Japanese aircraft carriers. The significance of Midway was not the loss itself, which was less serious than the losses the American navy had already suffered. Instead, it was the fact that the Americans had the industrial capacity to rebuild, while there was no way Japan could. »
• « The nun, whose illness had forced her to abandon another journey two months earlier, sank to the ground. -No, please," she pleaded. I can go on. »