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Antonyms for sunken
ˈsʌŋ kənsunken

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  1. deep-set, sunken, recessedadjective

    having a sunken area

    "hunger gave their faces a sunken look"

    Antonyms:
    solid

    Synonyms:
    deep-set, recessed

How to use sunken in a sentence?

  1. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

    I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

  2. Paul Allen:

    We’ve done a number of these explorations to try to find sunken warships, we try to do these both as really exciting examples of underwater archeology and as tributes to the brave men that went down in these ships.

  3. Trista Jordan:

    Her eyes were so sunken, and she just seemed so sad.

  4. Kazushige Todaka:

    I was really surprised because the location of the sunken ship has never been identified since it went down, i have heard countless stories in the past that the ship was discovered, but they all turned out not to be true.

  5. Frederick W. Faber:

    The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

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