[
UK
/sˈʌŋkən/
]
[ US /ˈsəŋkən/ ]
[ US /ˈsəŋkən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having a sunken area
hunger gave their faces a sunken look
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.