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Sink in   /sɪŋk ɪn/   Listen
Sink in

verb
1.
Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions.  Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate.  "She was penetrated with sorrow"
2.
Pass through.  Synonyms: filter, percolate, permeate.






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"Sink in" Quotes from Famous Books



... sharp Pain of the Side which characterizes the Pleurisy; and upon opening the Bodies of People who have died of the Peripneumony, have found the Lungs violently inflamed and livid, and so filled with Blood as to sink in Water, without the Pleura being much diseased; and upon opening the Thorax of others who died of the Pleurisy, have found the intercostal Muscles and Pleura violently inflamed with livid Spots, and only a small Portion of the Surface of the contiguous ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

... the college man to lead the half-tamed boy into the stronger places of life; nor shove him to the dangerous ground where his feet must sink in ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter

... The pair knelt side by side with hands locked together, while notes of praise rose from all voices; and meantime Ebbo, close to that coffin, strove to share the joy, and to lift up a heart that WOULD sink in the midst of self-reproach for undutifulness, and would dislike the thought of the rude untaught man, holding aloof from him, likely to view him with distrust and jealousy, and to undo all he had achieved, and further absorbing ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge

... weakly reflecting, with a sinister glee, that the boat was bound to sink in a moment. He wanted it to sink. ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson

... let his words sink in. "Fo' eve'y dollah you 'vests you gits de dollah back, anotheh dollah for intres', an', as a special bonus, anotheh dollah whut makes de th'ee fo' one. Dis Special 'Vestment Depahtment is open now an' will be run wid de lef han' whilst de right, not knowin' whut de lef' han' does, pays out yo' las' ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley


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