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SUNKEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a sunken area
Example:
hunger gave their faces a sunken look
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Similar:
hollow (not solid; having a space or gap or cavity)
Context examples:
He pointed as he spoke to a huge rough-hewn block which lay by the roadside, deep sunken from its own weight in the reddish earth.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, with a sunken head and a heavy heart, he plodded wearily down the other path, wroth with himself for the rude and uncouth tongue which had given offence where so little was intended.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For, hark ye: granting, propter argumentum, that I am a talker, then the true reasoning runs that since all men of sense should avoid me, and thou hast not avoided me, but art at the present moment eating herrings with me under a holly-bush, ergo you are no man of sense, which is exactly what I have been dinning into your long ears ever since I first clapped eyes on your sunken chops.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths—intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
