Hold-water Sentence Examples

By adding compost to your soil, the soil's ability to hold water is increased.

Although owner Ken Sherman claims to have lost four inches off his waist, that old myth of abdominal training somehow burning off waist fat still doesn't hold water regardless of the product being hawked.

In a few localities the surface depressions hold water for the greater part of the year but there is only one permanent lakeKeilat, which is some four miles by two.

They hold water like a sponge, but part with it under pressure to fissures by which they are intersected, and, in the case of the Upper Chalk, to ducts following beds of flints.

Again your supposed explanation is pure sophistry meant to trick children and idiots, but which does not hold water on inspection.

Irritants remove lipids, which are fatty substances that help to maintain the integrity of skin cells; irritants also damage the skin's ability to hold water.

Bags typically are designed to hold water without leaking.

Why did the Mayans find 2012 to be such an important year, and more importantly, do their prophecies hold water?

It is a softer straw hat - similar in shape to a fedora - and if it is well made, can hold water and be rolled up and packed without losing shape.