Body-of-water Sentence Examples

In the rains the Waube carries down a considerable body of water to the lake.

The Teverone or Anio, which enters the Tiber a few miles above Rome, is an inferior stream to the Nera, but brings down a considerable body of water from the mountains above Subiaco.

The heated body of air carried from the Indian Ocean over southern Asia by the south-west monsoon comes up highly charged with watery vapour, and hence in a condition to release a large body of water as rain upon the land, whenever it is brought into circumstances which reduce its temperature in a notable degree.

In 1819 Michigan Territory was extended westward to the Mississippi river, and in 1820 General Lewis Cass, its governor, conducted an exploring expedition in search of the source of the Mississippi, which he was satisfied was in the body of water named Lake Cass in his honour.

The coast-line, including the shores of the bays and islands, is extensive; its western portion is only slightly indented, but its eastern portion is deeply indented by Narragansett Bay, a body of water varying in width from 3 to 12 m., and extending inland for about 28 m.

There arc four narrow avenues connecting this remarkable body of water with the Pacific and the Japan Sea; that on the west, called Shirnonoseki Strait, has a width of 3000 yds., that on the south, known ai Hayarnoto Strait, is 8 m.

The greater part of the James River Valley lies in the bed of the extinct Lake Dakota, which was once a very narrow body of water extending northward from about the latitude of the present town of Mitchell for a short distance into what is now North Dakota.

The Minnesota river has its source in the north-east, and the Big Stone Lake, a body of water about 25 m.

During the rainy season there is a considerable body of water in these channels, but owing partly to rapid evaporation and partly to the porous character of the soil the surface of the country dries rapidly.

The body of water thus formed, Superior and Allouez bays, varies in width from to 14 m., and is 91 m.

A peculiar network of fjords and connecting channels terminating inland in a peculiarly shaped body of water with long, widely branching arms, called Worsley Sound, Obstruction Sound and Last Hope Inlet, covers an extensive area between the 51st and 53rd parallels, and extends nearly to the Argentine frontier.

Of these the largest and the most frequented are Lake Hopatcong, an irregular body of water in Morris and Sussex counties, and Greenwood Lake, lying partly in New York and partly in New Jersey.

While most of the other lagoons are highly saline, with thick incrustations of salt round their margins, Aussa remains fresh throughout the year, owing to the great body of water discharged into it by the Hawash.

Elkington showed that by cutting a deep drain through the clay, aided when necessary by wells or auger holes, the subjacent bed of sand or gravel in which a body of water is pent up by the clay, as in a vessel, might be tapped and the water conveyed harmlessly in the covered drain to the nearest ditch or stream.

The Kanarese rivers have a larger body of water and a more regular flow than the streams of the Konkan.

When it enters Austria at the gorge of Passau, where it receives the Inn, a river which has as large a body of water as itself, the Danube is already navigable.

The largest river is the Omo., which, fed by the rains of the Abyssinian highlands, carries down a large body of water into Lake Rudolf.

Seven miles south-west of the limits of the city is Lake Minnetonka, one of the most famous summer resorts in the Northwest, a beautiful body of water 15 m.

The hydrodynamic cavitation by itself killed off 99 million out of 100 million E.coli cells in a body of water.

Access to a suitable piece of ground or body of water would be required to use a heat pump.

By far the largest of these lakes, nearly all of them shallow, is Lake Okeechobee, a body of water about 1250 sq.

Other German travellers added to the knowledge of the southern tributaries, the Tarabba, Donga and others, which in the rains bring down a large body of water from the highlands of southern Adamawa.

This means that some people are unable to do the things they used to enjoy such as going to a public places or drive over a body of water.

In some cases the bog is an extension of a pond or designed to create a pond-like atmosphere without the complications of a body of water.

Another similar dream is swimming through a body of water.

The massive body of water is fed by a raging waterfall that towers 13 feet in the air and measure 30 feet across.

Children should not walk, skate, or ride on thawing ice on any body of water.

The bridge was built to connect the peninsula that the city of San Francisco occupies with Marin County to the north, which means it spans a body of water.

This volatile body of water ebbs and flows with the changing tides, so calculating the distance from the water to the bridge is difficult because the distance is constantly changing.

At the very least, it's helpful for kids to know how to perform basic movements should they fall into a body of water.

Some lessons are merely meant to help participants learn the basics of swimming by mastering useful skills that will help anyone enjoy the water or save themselves should they fall into a body of water unexpectedly.

Unless you live near a body of water or are lucky enough to have your own swimming pool, you may not think that swim lessons are all that important.

Children should be closely supervised when near any body of water.

This body of water has some very deep portions that would be perfect for Nessie to retreat to, making it nearly impossible for scientists to get a glimpse of the creature.

Even if you live far from any body of water you never know when your washing machine's pipes may burst and flood your basement.

If you see this happening, make an effort to increase your water consumption and boost your water intake with broths, juices, and natural or caffeine-free teas, since caffeine is a natural diuretic and can also deplete the body of water.

She'd never seen such a beautiful body of water.