He felt he couldn't breathe, like he was literally drowning.

Survivors provided horrifying testimonies in the wake of a storm that literally drowned people in their homes.

Without the movement-forced flow of oxygen-bearing water over and past her gills, the unconscious shark would literally drown.

In the first place the scheme literally drowned in its own success.

It seemed so stupid for him to be literally drowning in his own box.

The medical care industry is literally drowning in paperwork.

The boy aspirated into his lungs and literally drowned in his own vomit.

This is a significant problem that is very familiar to people living in Greece, where we are literally drowning in a sea of television transmitters.

They literally drown in their own blood as their internal membranes burst.

No wonder she could not breathe; she was literally drowning.