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Example sentences for "cold water"

  • You'd better go and bathe it well in cold water.

  • Cold water and a bit of rag's all he'll want.

  • Tom, taking his head out of his basin, where he had been plunging it in cold water.

  • Then he flew to a famous antidote, to "the grand febrifuge" of anchorites--cold water.

  • Nothing he hates and dreads like seeing us monks at our orisons up to our chins in cold water.

  • Wring two towels out of cold water; wrap one around the neck and the other properly folded over the forehead and upper part of the nose.

  • Dip the elbow in ice-cold water; at first one feels the sensation of cold, owing to the effect on the cutaneous nerve-endings.

  • The visible sweat, or sensible perspiration, becomes abundant during active exercise, after copious drinking of cold water, on taking certain drugs, and when the body is exposed to excessive warmth.

  • Into a four-ounce bottle put two tablespoonfuls of cold water; add one grain of Fairchild's extract of pancreas, and as much baking soda as can be taken up on the point of a penknife.

  • Thus a dash of cold water on the face or neck of a fainting person instantly produces a deep, long-drawn breath.

  • To expedite the expulsion of the afterbirth, an old woman presses the patient round the waist, gives her frequent drinks of cold water, and sprinkles water over her.

  • Immediately a' baby is born it is washed in cold water.

  • As soon as the leaf is taken away the baby is bathed in cold water.

  • It forms shiny, homogeneous masses, quite insoluble in cold water and in salt solutions, but soluble in alkalies.

  • The hydrogen gas was obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid upon iron filings, and was introduced through leaden pipes; but as the gas was not passed through cold water, great difficulty.

  • In general they are white, loose powders, slightly soluble in cold water, more soluble in hot water; they are precipitated by mineral acids, but dissolve in an excess.

  • It is very soluble in cold water, a large fall of temperature accompanying solution.

  • The metal in mass is not affected by hot or cold water, the foil is very slowly oxidized, while the amalgam decomposes rapidly.

  • I was blessed with a sturdy health such as few men enjoy, and came to myself sooner than had been looked for, with a dash of cold water.

  • I would neither permit white nor Indian doctors to attend me after my arrival; but had myself regularly washed in cold water, my wounds kept clean, and the bandages properly attended to.

  • In a reply of this date, he throws, with adroitness, cold water on the subject.

  • He was being very gently washed with cold water.

  • As I wished to wash and freshen these, I begged the servant to go and draw me a pitcher of cold water.

  • We are always able to recognize by the action of the vapor of iodine the parts of the paper which have been put in contact with chemical agents, the energy of which has been arrested by washing in cold water.

  • This point followed up explains in a measure why a gall infusion prepared with hot water is not suitable for a blue-black, while a cold water infusion is.

  • If the liquor is then short of 5 quarts, make it equal to this quantity by the addition of cold water.

  • After steeping, the cask may be filled up with warm or cold water, and the solution is ready for use.

  • That we may often avail ourselves of these gracious opportunities of giving the equivalent of a "cup of cold water," we should plant fruits and flowers in abundance.

  • I certainly could not cart them on my neighbors' ground without having a surplus of hot as well as cold water, so I concluded to bury them in the old-fashioned box-drains.

  • Sent two cups of cold water to two fellow-pilgrims of mine on the way to Jerusalem, viz: to E.

  • But the immersion of the whole body in cold water was of itself a severe trial to those numerous patients in whom the circulation was weak; and as medical treatment, hurtful and even dangerous.

  • After being kept in cold water for an hour, it was placed in the strong solution of ammonia, and in the course of 55 m.

  • The leaf was now removed and left in cold water; but from having been exposed to so high a temperature, it never re-expanded.

  • They were then placed in cold water, or in a solution of carbonate of ammonia.

  • The leaf was now placed in cold water, and in 7 hrs.

  • The protoplasm within the cells was not killed, for it was seen to be in distinct movement; and the leaves, having been left in cold water for 20 hrs.

  • It will there encounter the jet of cold water, which is kept constantly playing there by keeping the cock I sufficiently open.

  • The steam, after having performed its office in the cylinder, is permitted to pass into a vessel called the condenser, where a shower of cold water is discharged upon it.

  • The condenser K is immerged in a cistern of cold water.

  • At its side there is a tube I, for the admission of water to condense the steam, and which is governed by a cock, by opening which to any required extent, a jet of cold water may be made to play in the condenser.

  • Below the lower valve E is another compartment communicating with a pipe called the eduction pipe, which leads downwards from the cylinder to the condenser, in which vessel the steam is condensed by a jet of cold water.

  • When they are fresh, they will sink in cold water, but as they decompose they become lighter and will float.

  • The scraping can be accomplished more easily if the vegetables are first plunged into boiling water for a few minutes and then dipped into cold water.

  • When butter is desired for very rich cakes and for pastry, it is usually washed in cold water to remove the milk.

  • To prepare beans for cooking, wash them thoroughly in cold water.

  • However, if they wilt before they can be cooked, they may be freshened by allowing them to stand in cold water for a short time.

  • I can only just carry round my little cup of cold water.

  • At noon we boiled tea near a little spring of clear, cold water.

  • Deuce used to solve the problem of comfort by drinking the little pool of cold water in which he sometimes was forced to lie.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cold water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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