The sun has just sunk below the horizon.

But the IPO soon sunk miserably.

The sun sunk below the clouds.

The boat sunk and everyone died.

The Titanic sunk on its maiden voyage.

After her death, he sunk into depression.

Responsibility must be put back at the heart of a system that has sunk into excess.

Greece would have sunk or swum on its own.

How many sailors were aboard the ship that sunk?

The birds place new branches on top, but the lower layer has already sunk between the wires, will collapse any minute.

Even if confidence really were all that mattered, the economy would have sunk.

(The image of) the calf had sunk deep into their hearts on account of unbelief.

Bush s presidency was discredited and sunk by the man whom he fatally selected to work for him.

These rate estimates include personnel, maintenance and many other sunk costs that are included in annual appropriations.

As if to confirm that the lesson has sunk in, Secretary of State Colin Powell has just informed Russia that the US is ready, after all, to enter a binding treaty on the reduction of nuclear weapons.

At its introduction the euro reached impressive heights, like a high tech IPO. But the IPO soon sunk miserably.

Bombs and torpedos exploded right next to living quarters (on Ford Island), and warships were sunk, one by one.

'And now that sunk and hollow chest... And I, who do not know what will happen to me, or why...'

April was a particularly deadly month in the Mediterranean Sea, where several boats carrying migrants with hopes of reaching Europe sunk.

Yet part of that increased agricultural output resulted from millions of wells that were sunk to tap underground water supplies for irrigation.

Which were thin, and you just put a little bit over it and it sunk down to the bottom of the pasta.

This was a one kilometer brass rod which was sunk into the earth so that nothing remained visible except a few centimeters.

In the US, the climate indicator declined again, after having sunk dramatically in the second quarter, bringing it to its lowest level since 1991.

The other thing to think of is what an honor it is, as a politician, to give a TED talk, particularly here in the U.K., where the reputation of politics, with the expenses scandal, has sunk so low.

Their judgment was clear Muslims had sunk far below what their religion required them to be, and lagged far behind the accomplishments of their ancestors.

A South Korean warship, the Cheonan, was sunk in the West Sea on 26 March by an alleged North Korean torpedo attack, killing 46 sailors.

As a result of damage and ships sunk under orders from Nasser the canal was closed until April 1957, when it was cleared with UN assistance.

After the summit in Washington, it should have sunk in among Europeans everywhere even the Euroskeptics of the British Isles that this strategic realignment is taking place right now!

They've got so much sunk in it that it's very difficult for them to spot emerging new markets. Emerging new markets, then, are the breeding grounds for passionate users.

A boat carrying almost 500 immigrants, many of them women and children, caught fire and sunk off the coast of Lampedusa on October 3, leaving at least 363 dead.

Indeed first mover advantages are common in many industries, owing to economies of scale, or because they lock in a customer base, or simply as a result of sunk costs.

That money was sunk into property and the De Lutis portfolio now includes city offices, Brunswick and Sorrento development sites, Gold Coast and Mt Buller apartments, and suburban shopping centres.

Still, reading Russia's blogosphere, the sense of national foreboding seems to overshadow that of mourning, as for many bloggers the sunk vessel comes to symbolize the future fate of Russia.

In fact, it's the title of a 1977 movie by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, inspired by a line from Shakespeare, presenting a post war Germany sunk into poverty and inflation.

In the debate over the Guantanamo Bay prisoners and the Geneva Convention America's realists have, once again, won out over America's ideologues. As if to confirm that the lesson has sunk in, Secretary of State Colin Powell has just informed Russia that the US is ready, after all, to enter a binding treaty on the reduction of nuclear weapons.

What is known is that Bin Laden s demise came at a moment when relations between the CIA and Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan s intelligence agency, had sunk to an all time low.

Of all that had been said the words of the silly good natured Turovtsyn had sunk deepest into his mind 'He acted like a brick, challenged the other man, and killed him.'

In the Italian case, following the corruption scandals that have nearly sunk Il Calcio, Italy s premier football league, the national team had to rehabilitate the game in the eyes of their fellow citizens.

Back in 2009, a ship carrying phosphate sunk off the coast of Madagascar and the contamination affected wildlife including migrating whales and fishermen who got sick from the contaminated water on the shores.

What Dolly had said in Moscow, to the effect that in considering a divorce he was thinking of himself and not of Anna, who would then be irretrievably lost, had sunk into his heart.

Since the city was built on wooden pylons and due to the many wells sunk into the lagoon Venice began to noticeably sink into its foundations during the twentieth century, causing floods at high tide.

In March 2009, the S amp P 500 index was down to 660, earnings per share (EPS) of US companies and banks had sunk to a financial crisis low, and price earnings ratios were in the single digits.

According to a story by non profit US radio broadcaster NPR, the dinghy that took them across started taking on water, so Yusra and her sister, both strong swimmers, jumped in the sea to give the half sunk boat more buoyancy.

Have you acknowledged yet that the more you ve tried to bend up this country like a kurma trying to fit it into Western colonial notions of modernity, the deeper we ve sunk into the faecal pool the British (un)consciously left behind?

Winter has gone. Spring has come.