Word: sunk
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Down below the surface two miles or so, the temperature can be determined from specially designed thermometers which have been sunk into bore holes. Estimates below that depend on the knowledge of the rock forms. Such investigations have enabled the scientists to systematize knowledge of the conductivity of any rocks from mineral composition...
...enemies broadcast pictures of Mary "almost naked, wrinkled and uncomely, suckling Spaniards at her breast, and round about, the legend : Maria Ruina Angliae." There was truth in the legend, for never had England sunk so low, militarily and financially, never had she known such general instability and discontent. And never had Mary herself sunk so low in her own esteem. Her handsome husband, after perfunctorily doing his duty in the hope of providing England with a Catholic heir, walked out on her when she proved barren. Calais, England's proud outpost in France, fell to the French...
DESPITE currency and other restrictions, private U.S. investors have sunk $3.2 billion into American-controlled foreign enterprises in the last three years, half of it in Canada. Total such stakes abroad, as of midyear: $15 billion...
...tragic mistake, the Seawolf, with all hands aboard, was depth-charged and sunk by a U.S. destroyer whose commander was not informed that Seawolf was in the area...
During the growth of the Pictish village, the blowing beach sand heaped up around its walls, and some of the people took to living in underground houses sunk into the sand. The British diggers found remains of their pottery, tools and weapons of stone, bone and iron, and many mysterious pebbles painted with crude designs. The pebbles are believed to be connected in some way with their custom of tattooing their bodies...