If the dead person is right there in your living room, it would certainly make things sink in better.
Maybe all the things he'd said over the years had finally sunk in.
I shook the image off and let things sink in.
"The whole thing has sunk into a memory hole," he said.
Maybe later, when things sink in, we'll be able to evaluate this season.
You've got to let the thing sink its teeth into you, and take it from there.
How can a thing be sinking all this time.
It was an incredible admission on the part of our government that things at home had sunk pretty low.
First, the thing did not sink back into the earth as she had at first thought.