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 Meanings and Examples of SUBMERGE
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submerge
 v.  sink; immerse; put under water
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  It's the realization that if all of us don't hang together and submerge our own small hates, we can't expect to beat the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  You must submerge yourselves in the greater thing, the Soviet-social thing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  He looked up and down the little pebbly beach till his eye lit on a fallen tree-trunk half submerged in snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  If he had spared her that she could have drowned quietly, welcoming the dark flood as it submerged her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  Well, thunder, we submerged tenth down here in Swede Hollow are no worse off than you folks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  The whale, be it observed, lies almost entirely submerged, excepting the immediate parts operated upon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
7  As the boats now more closely surrounded him, the whole upper part of his form, with much of it that is ordinarily submerged, was plainly revealed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
8  These submerged side blows are so often received in the fishery, that they are accounted mere child's play.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
9  Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in broad circles; then quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from a submerged berg of ice, swiftly rising to the surface.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
10  The younger one did not look up; he was submerged in his own feelings, but his brother met me with intelligent grey eyes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
11  It is the fate of many men to live thus half submerged.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
12  Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and reappears.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
13  This fragment of the vaulting, partly submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this plane, he was safe.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
14  The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Hippos are unable to submerge in the few remaining water holes.
2  The waters were rising about the rock and would soon submerge it.
3  At 17.5 feet, waters begin to submerge Harriet Island Park across the river from downtown.
4  The submarine submerged to avoid enemy ships.
5  The recollection adverse current becomes the river, submerged your me.
6  The machine can be totally submerged in water.
7  The tunnel entrance was submerged by rising sea water.
8  They'd been pumping liquid air and nitrogen into the submerged tanks of the platform to try to stabilize it but, with steep waves, they were fighting a losing battle.
9  Our ship was able to haul up just before it hit the submerged reef.
10  They'd been pumping liquid air and nitrogen into the submerged tanks of the platform to try to stabilize it.
11  A young municipal utility worker has become a viral sensation after an image of him submerged in a puddle from a busted pipeline was shared around the country.