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Sinking feeling   /sˈɪŋkɪŋ fˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Sinking feeling

noun
1.
A feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension.  Synonym: sinking.  "A sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach"





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"Sinking feeling" Quotes from Famous Books



... to beg Tom to run but she did not dare. He asked to carry the box and she let him, for fear, if she refused, he might suspect something. Queer shivers raced up and down her spine and a dreadful sinking feeling attacked her heart and dragged at her throat so that ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott
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... the author was ever found, but I know plenty that were laid out for singing it. We began to have a sinking feeling that we would not be in the real scrap at all, for a good part of our time was taken up in forming "hollow square," a formation that is famous in the British army as having been only once broken, but is only of value against savages, and "furphies" ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett
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... of a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach; the blank all but slipped from my nerveless fingers. Then all at once there came back to me the words of some chance acquaintance of some far-off time and place, words which were the only memory that remained ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
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... her drawing-board, and went to the art class. Here at least she would have peace for an hour, though every one of the sixty minutes was bringing her nearer to her dreaded interview. At four o'clock, with a horrible sinking feeling in her heart, and a trembling sensation in her knees, she knocked at the door of the head-mistress's study, and entered in response to the "Come in!" which followed. Miss Bishop looked up from some papers, motioned her to a chair, and went on writing ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
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Words linked to "Sinking feeling" :   anxiety, sinking


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