English example sentences with "waters"

Learn how to use waters in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

Are you trying to fish in troubled waters?

I have no intention of fishing in troubled waters.

Bureaucrats are testing the waters over revising old regulations.

Still waters run deep.

Silent waters run deep.

Fishing trawlers have fished out all the local waters.

It is very pleasant to sail these waters.

The flood waters tumbled my house into the river.

We crossed the waters in a boat.

A man who angers easily should learn to count to ten - it calms trouble like pouring oil on troubled waters.

He waters the flowers every day in summer.

They crossed the waters on foot.

Sleeping on a problem solves it as easily as pouring oil on troubled waters.

A great ship asks deep waters.

The flatboat carrying the two silent men went on gliding atop the dark waters as the moonlit night slowly wore on.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents.

The American ships were stopped and searched in British waters.

He waters the garden once a week.

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

They usually sail in calm waters.

A leak has been found at Tokyo Electricity's Fukishima reactor number 1, and 150 liters of waters have escaped into the sea.

Forty-four US Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents.

The quarter master was standing on deck, contemplating the scene of tranquillity around him : the blue waters seemed to invite him to a refreshing bath, and he was soon undressed; and, mounting on the barricade, plunged into the sea.

My father waters the flowers.

Most tributaries' waters end up in the middle of the stream.

There once were many nymphs and goddesses in the forests and waters.

A great ship needs deep waters.

To go on from pain to pain mystery to mystery. From stone pain to plant pain. For everything is pain. The pain of battle the fear of not being. Links of pain chain the earth to the sky the waters to the land. And worlds gallop in orbits of affliction. Thinking of surprise.

He fell into the shark infested waters.

Tom waters his lawn at least once a week when there's no rain.

El Niño is the unusual warming of the surface waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It causes changes in wind patterns that have major effects on weather all across the globe.

The little boat, tossed about by the angry waters, appeared and disappeared in the waves.

My mouth waters when I read cooking books.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Two people spent the night adrift after their boat capsized in choppy waters.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Tom pilots a helicopter which patrols the city's beaches, searching the waters for sharks.

He jumped into the cold and calm waters of the gulf, and started to swim through the darkness.

The rain waters the flowers.

Did you swim in the waters of awesomeness when younger?

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Ocean waters are becoming warmer and more acidic, broadly affecting ocean circulation, chemistry, ecosystems, and marine life. More acidic waters inhibit the formation of shells, skeletons, and coral reefs.

Ocean waters are becoming warmer and more acidic, broadly affecting ocean circulation, chemistry, ecosystems, and marine life. More acidic waters inhibit the formation of shells, skeletons, and coral reefs.

Warmer waters harm coral reefs and alter the distribution, abundance, and productivity of many marine species.

Therefore, E.T.A. Hoffman asserts: "Music is the most romantic of all arts, for its object is the infinite. It is the mysterious Sanskrit of nature, spoken in tones which fill up the soul of mankind with infinite yearning; and it alone lets us understand the songs of the trees, the flowers, the animals, the stones and the waters."

I heard Roger Waters perform The Wall live.

Tom leaped from the high cliff into the raging waters of the river below.

Even the wealth of the wide sea will be diminished if the cloud that has drawn its waters up does not give them back again in rain.

The flood waters will devastate the nearby town.

There are parts of land today that used to be far beneath the ocean waters.

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

Oh, I don't like that name, either. I shall call it - let me see - the Lake of Shining Waters. Yes, that is the right name for it.

One June evening, when the orchards were pink blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.

The incident occurred in international waters.

You sing with a voice as clear as the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

You muddy the waters in order to catch fish.

The flood waters have finally receded.

The flood waters are predicted to engulf the town.

Rain waters our plants and keeps our grass green.

The waters of the river ran red with blood.

The seal dove into the freezing cold waters.

They're entering uncharted waters.

Beware of calm waters.

We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep,— It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep.

I began to stake out my territorial waters in the sorority house's hot tub.

The MMPA prohibits, with certain exceptions, the "take" of marine mammals in U.S. waters and by U.S. citizens on the high seas, and the importation of marine mammals and marine mammal products into the U.S.

Twenty-six species of sturgeon can be found in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere, two of which reside on the West Coast of North America: the green sturgeon ( Acipenser medirostris) and the white sturgeon (Acipenser trensmontanus).

These waters are rich in nutrients.

The protected waters of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary are home to the third-largest barrier coral reef in the world and beckon millions of visitors each year.

At first glance the sand seems barren and unproductive. After a while, if you are careful not to kick up sand, you might see tiny benthic communities of tube-building worms come alive as they sweep the passing nutrient rich waters with tentacles to capture food.

Sixty-five percent of U.S. estuaries and coastal water bodies are moderately to severely degraded by excessive nutrient inputs, which lead to algal blooms and low-oxygen (hypoxic) waters that can kill fish and seagrass and reduce essential fish habitats.

This tangle of roots allows the trees to handle the daily rise and fall of tides, which means that most mangroves get flooded at least twice per day. The roots also slow the movement of tidal waters, causing sediments to settle out of the water and build up the muddy bottom.

National marine sanctuaries are protected waters that include habitats such as rocky reefs, kelp forests, deep-sea canyons, and underwater archaeological sites

Within national marine sanctuaries's protected waters, giant humpback whales breed and calve their young, temperate reefs flourish, and shipwrecks tell stories of our maritime history.

The North Atlantic, where waters sink after being chilled by arctic temperatures, is the start of the “global ocean conveyor,” a circulation pattern that helps regulate Earth’s climate.

The "doldrums" is a popular nautical term that refers to the belt around the Earth near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless waters.

Tom waters the lawn every day.

The swirling motion of eddies in the ocean cause nutrients that are normally found in colder, deeper waters to come to the surface.

Tsunami waves may travel as fast as jet planes over deep waters, only slowing down when reaching shallow waters.

Tsunami waves may travel as fast as jet planes over deep waters, only slowing down when reaching shallow waters.

Tides are one of the most reliable phenomena in the world. As the sun rises in the east and the stars come out at night, we are confident that the ocean waters will regularly rise and fall along our shores.

Clouds the darkened heavens have drowned, / and snatched the daylight from the Trojans' eyes. / Black night broods on the waters; all around / from pole to pole the rattling peals resound / and frequent flashes light the lurid air. / All nature, big with instant ruin, frowned / destruction.

The shattered oars start forth; / round swings the prow, and lets the waters sweep / the broadside. Onward comes a mountain heap / of billows, gaunt, abrupt.

Two towering crags, twin giants, guard the cove, / and threat the skies. The waters at their feet / sleep hushed, and, like a curtain, frowns above, / mixt with the glancing green, the darkness of the grove.

Their breasts erect they rear amid the deep, / their blood-red crests above the surface shine, / their hinder parts along the waters sweep, / trailed in huge coils and many a tortuous twine.

Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way.

Warming waters have reduced the harvest of Alaska's prized Copper River salmon to just a small fraction of last year's harvest.

"First must Trinacrian waters bend the oar, / Ausonian waves thy vessels must explore, / first must thou view the nether world, where flows / dark Styx, and visit that AEaean shore, / the home of Circe, ere, at rest from woes, / thou build the promised walls, and win the wished repose."

Yidir waters his trees every day.

As I turned away I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters.

The state of Hawai‘i is developing management options to promote coral reef recovery from widespread bleaching events caused by warmer waters that threaten tourism, fisheries, and coastal protection from wind and waves.

Marine species are moving to new locations toward cooler waters.

Fish, shellfish, and other marine species along the Northeast coast and in the eastern Bering Sea have, on average, moved northward and to greater depths toward cooler waters since the early 1980s.

Tom waters his lawn every day.

Troubled waters suddenly calmed down.

In memory of his Naiad, he had previously ornamented the fountain in which she appeared to reside, and secured its waters from profanation or pollution by the small vaulted building of which the fragments still remained scattered around it.

All agreed that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and that to drink of the waters of the well, or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house.

Winter came and the waters froze.

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Now the earth was completely empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's ruach was hovering over the surface of the waters.

She washed the teapot in several waters before she put the tea to steep.

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