Meanings of drowned under in English

His buddies all high-fived each other while he drowned under their noses.

Another group of men found temporary safety but drowned under the rising tide.

So a few more questions: has Ireland drowned under a tide of filth?

There is something horribly repugnant in the idea of being drowned under a deck.

The first one, Lang's longtime aide, drowned under suspicious circumstances.

Better he had drowned under the ice years ago.

Occasional clever pieces slowly drowned under the weight of stretching a short book into a trilogy of movies.

You break upon my thought like waves at the high tide, and my heart is drowned under surging songs.

Rather reluctantly, she glanced down; she had not wanted her last vision of the man to be of him drowned under fathoms of water.

The walls of their buildings were now nothing more than stiff lumps drowned under tapegrass, names decaying to waypoints loaded into the Trooperbus's guidance block.

'Kenny Auster's brother - the one Normal drowned under the pump - his name was Kerry?'