A wave of dizziness and nausea washed up from his belly and drowned him.
The book begins with a telling metaphor of peasants being like a man standing up to his nose in water; the smallest wave will drown him.
He could hold on for a while but the wave would drown him again.
A wave of protest from the outraged spectators fortunately drowned the Justice's remarks to Albert.
A wave of desire almost drowned her.
The waves drowned numbers you cannot hold in your head.
But the world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him.
Wallrath was pulled into lifeboat number 6 just before a wave capsized it and drowned two of its occupants.
The tidal wave of urbanites that rushed in nearly drowned the staff before it had time to develop sea legs.