[ UK /sˈʌŋkən/ ]
[ US /ˈsəŋkən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a sunken area
    hunger gave their faces a sunken look
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How To Use sunken In A Sentence

  • A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
  • His hair was starting to gray around the edges, and his eyes were sunken, hidden away behind bags and wrinkles that were now forming.
  • Rooms feature beamed ceilings, exposed stone walls and sunken baths. Times, Sunday Times
  • No bulging rib cages, no collar bones out to here, no sunken eyes or bizarre hipbone bulges.
  • Williamson suggests that assets with a high amount of specificity represent sunken costs that have little value outside a particular exchange relationship.
  • TWO men were arrested yesterday on suspicion of stealing a cannon and treasures from a sunken 17th-century warship. The Sun
  • We follow the tracks across the cracked mudflats, out past the sunken pilings now exposed and bleached by sun, to the deepest channel turned fetid pond. Three Prayers for Rain
  • The bow ranks were flooded; the whole front of the anchorage was a wreck of sunken boats. A Fire Upon the Deep
  • His eyes were sunken, his chin unshaved and his hair and even his clothing looked disheveled.
  • Before its present incarnation as housing, the site was used for rice production, its landscape characterized by a network of sunken fields, raised terraces and dykes to contain the flooded rice paddies.
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