"man" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It came like a murmurous wind drifting up from the south, waking men sunk in the apathy of despair.
- "Indeed he has been, and as I had a sample of a cake she baked for him, I can tell you any man who swallows more than a mouthful of what she makes in her kitchen is a man sunk to his ears in love."
- Slouching against a convenient tree stump, the bears sit on their bottoms - tummy out, legs akimbo like an enormously fat man sunk into an old armchair - and eat; methodically stripping the bamboo of its tough, green outer skin, before noisily crunching up the yellow inside.
- Three young men sunk picks and shovels into a rocky hillside near this village, looking for treasure and grimacing when all they turned up were pottery shards and bone fragments.
- She had seen before men sunk to this extremity of neglect - many in the south.
- We keep the ancient faith The words rolled on-the solemn, dedicated words of a man sunk deep in faith.
- Simon re- membered Aldis, her hands tight upon the Kolder talis- man, so deeply sunk in her voiceless call for aid that she was unaware of action about her.
- Perhaps, conceivably, a man (or woman) so sunk in savagery or psychosis that he (or she) didn't need light.
- There might be scattered bands of men already sunk in savagery, but not enough of them to form any sort of economic base.
- You may by degrees weaken a real sorrow, till it totally disappears; yet in none of its graduations will it ever give pleasure; except, perhaps, by accident, to a man sunk under lethargic indolence, whom it rouzes from that languid state.
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