sombrer

Les masses travailleuses vécurent d'espoirs ou sombrèrent dans le désespoir.
The toiling masses lived on hopes or fell into apathy.
Toutefois les marionnettes de Carlo Böcklin sombrèrent dans l’oubli, du fait du succès rencontré par celles des Hohnsteiner (voir Max Jacob).
Yet because of the emerging success of the Hohnsteiner Handpuppenspiele (see Max Jacob), they subsequently sank into oblivion.
Les royaumes qui lui succédèrent furent encore plus corrompus, et ils sombrèrent de plus en plus dans le vice.
The kingdoms that followed were even more base and corrupt; and these sank lower and still lower in the scale of moral worth.
Ils sombrèrent dans une profonde tristesse après avoir perdu leur fils à la guerre.
They fell into deep sadness after losing their son in the war.
Un par un, ils sombrèrent dans les ténèbres.
One by one, falling into darkness.
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