"If her parents had had any proper feeling," said Archie, "they would have drowned her long before that."

It was like watching someone drown before your eyes.

Better make a fool of yourself than watch some other fool kid drown himself before your eyes.

Some of them waded into the river, desperately trying to reach the terrified passengers drowning before their eyes, but it was no use.

Though if he'd known the great poet was going to get himself drowned before the age of thirty, he'd have offered.

Something seemed drowning before her eyes.

Thomas' father drowned shortly before his son's birth.

But I've seen my two best friends drown before my eyes.

Heavy surf resulted in one person drowning on the coast of Virginia a few days before the passage of the storm.

A man and a woman drowned in the surf before dawn yesterday as he tried to rescue her from a riptide, the police said.