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Example sentences for "backwaters"

Lexicographically close words:
backwardly; backwardness; backwards; backwash; backwater; backwood; backwoods; backwoodsman; backwoodsmen; backyard
  1. These backwaters are known in Guarani by the name of `aguapey'.

  2. According to the tradition and current belief of these people, they were brought to Kerala by Parasurama for plying boats and conveying passengers across the rivers and backwaters on the west coast.

  3. Many black regulars, on the other hand, once proud members of combat units, now found themselves performing menial tasks in the backwaters of the occupation.

  4. This doubt alone could explain the corps' decision to relegate the units to the backwaters of the war zone.

  5. I don't want to tackle these Chesapeake backwaters at night.

  6. The backwaters of the bay were brackish, with low-salt content.

  7. There are no inland lakes except the remains of magnificent artificial lakes in the north and east of the island, and the backwaters on the coast.

  8. Along these shores there are numerous inlets and backwaters of the sea, some of which are available as harbours for small native craft.

  9. The Lutheran and Calvinist Churches are but backwaters and stagnant pools, left behind by the subsidence of rivers in flood, separated from the tidal stress of cosmic forces.

  10. Copernicus and Bruno, the lineal ancestors of Helmholtz and Darwin, headed that opposition to Catholicism which has been continuous and potent to the present day, which has never retreated into backwaters or stagnated in slumbrous pools.

  11. Other collections outside the three-county area revealed the following: In the Neosho River, several parrot minnows were found in quiet backwaters and in shallow pools.

  12. Huge populations were in the shallow sandy backwaters and cut-off pools of the Arkansas River.

  13. Often they were found in backwaters and many times schools were taken over bottoms where mud and detritus had been deposited.

  14. Sequestered backwaters between and at the rear of the islands, suggest a change for the visitor who is tired of the shaven lawns, pretty villas, and park-like grounds behind the public ferry and the sleepy village.

  15. The eye wanders with delighted satisfaction from the merry streams to the reedy eyots, to the grand trees of the one side and the osiers and green meadows of the other, while weirs and backwaters play and plash throughout the livelong day.

  16. Shiplake has more than the ordinary share of backwaters and bye-streams, and on this account is a favourite resort of anglers.

  17. No steam-launch can push its way up the overshadowed and tranquil backwaters of Hennerton, or round about the islands at Bolney.

  18. For hours together now, she would compel this unconscious slave to row her in the silent reaches or to hide with her in backwaters to which the mob rarely came.

  19. In the monsoon the Cochin backwaters are broad navigable channels and lakes; in the hot weather they contract into shallows in many places not 2 ft.

  20. The low belt which borders on the seas and the backwaters is by nature flat and swampy, but has in the course of ages become enriched by the work of man.

  21. There must be in the quaint little backwaters of Mala Strana a certain indigenous type which considers it bold and venturesome to cross the Charles Bridge, a proceeding smacking of foreign travel.

  22. There are many little backwaters in the Old Town; you may people them with the shades of all those who for centuries have toiled to restore Bohemia to her rightful place among the States of Europe.

  23. It was surrounded partly by the main stream of the Roya, and partly by backwaters flowing from it.

  24. He is the sort of man we want round the backwaters now.

  25. I let other people pull up backwaters against strong streams now.

  26. But soon darkness settled in and along many intricate backwaters our rogue was able to give them the slip.

  27. The cold snap continued for several days, but very little ice was running, although the eddies and backwaters were frozen up; then the weather grew milder again, and I could see that we had missed our chance.

  28. If anything, my mother's famous beauty cast far more lustre on it than his genius--which preferred to bask in the sunshine of intimacy or recline indolently in the shady backwaters of privacy and leisure.

  29. Shad were mainly in quiet water; often, when the river-level was high, I found them predominately in backwaters or in the mouths of tributary streams.

  30. Ictalurus melas# (Rafinesque) Black Bullhead The black bullhead was abundant at the upper stations on each river, especially in backwaters having mud-bottom.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backwaters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.