sank vs sunk
sunk
Definitions
adjective
- doomed to extinction
Examples
A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
Though manœuvring went on for four days and a good deal of damage was inflicted, the result was indecisive, no ships being captured or sunk.
The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden.
