Sinking may refer to:
- Being submerged
- Sinking (metalworking), a metalworking technique
- Sinking (song), a song by No Doubt
- Shipwreck (foundering), what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached
- Sinking and sourcing (electronic circuits, output current capability)
- Sinking (album), a 1996 studio album by The Aloof
- Sinking champagne, the act of pouring out champagne in the sink
- Sinking Creek (disambiguation), several creeks
- shaft sinking, the process of digging a shaft in shaft mining
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Famous quotes containing the word sinking:
“I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We of the sinking middle class ... may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)