To their left the ground sank away among trees, and a lake could be seen not far off.
"Things," he said, and his voice was sinking away into the candlelit dark.
"Maybe I don't, either," he admitted in a voice that sank away.
It was so far from the way I felt, it just didn't sink in right away.
Rapidly the Earth sank away below them, shrinking to the size of a blue globe.
Soon the sun sank away in the west as the moon rose to the east.
Matt looked down and saw the ground sinking away... But not very far.
You want to stop fighting and just sink away.
A few dead fish rise and then sink away.
He watched his plane as it seemed to slowly sink away against the backdrop of blue water.