sink in

phrasal verb

sank in or sunk in; sunk in; sinking in; sinks in

: to become completely known, felt, or understood

I had to tell him what to do over and over before it finally sank in.

The fact that she's left me still hasn't really sunk in.

Examples of sink in in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Just last Thursday, a barge struck the Fort Madison Bridge in Iowa and later sank in the Mississippi River. —

Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 16 May 2024 The Alboran Cognac is the fifth vessel orcas have sunk in the last three years, reports Live Science’s Harry Baker. —

Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024 Soap was not available at the sink in the dough preparation station during the May 3 inspection. —

Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024 One of the most recent wreckages occurred in 1975 when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the deep waters of Lake Superior. —

Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2024 Griner exhaled, allowing relief to sink in for the first time. —

J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024 The deadliest wreck in Lake Michigan – and all of the Great Lakes – was the Lady Elgin, which sank in 1860 after it was rammed by the schooner Augusta less than 10 miles from shore during a gale. —

Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024 One of the most famous modern Great Lakes shipwrecks is the Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that also sank in Lake Superior in 1975 during a terrible gale. —

Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2024 In public, showed me off, then sank in stoned oblivion. —

Bryan West, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024

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