One person drowned after attempting to cross the swollen river.

There was one death on the island after a person drowned in a storm-flooded river.

The person may effectively drown without any sort of liquid.

From then, one person would drown in the river nearly every year.

One person drowned after his ship broke during the storm.

One person drowned in the western Atlantic after his ship sunk.

Later reports confirmed that the missing person drowned during the storm.

At least one person drowned in the flooded farm fields of Iowa.

Officials feared that all missing persons from the incident drowned.

This situation typically arises in the hypothetical where a person is drowning.