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Example sentences for "deep water"

  • Probably the short extent of deep water saved me, for at this spot only a few thin bushes grew on the bank, and though the savages were some distance off, they would infallibly have noticed the water being dashed up by Czar.

  • I sprang at one bound into the river, in order to prevent the horrible brute from reaching deep water, to which it was retreating and was only a few feet from it.

  • Mr. Brunel subsequently decided to have only one pier in deep water, and to have two spans of 465 feet each.

  • This arrangement would have required three piers in deep water.

  • We were then in twenty fathoms of water, when suddenly we again found ourselves in deep water, and believed all danger at an end.

  • High tide was expected at about eleven o'clock, when it was hoped the vessel would float off, though we feared she would sink in deep water.

  • Caught in deep water on medium tackle and small-fish bait on the south shore of Lake Superior.

  • Caught on medium tackle with the troll and minnow bait in deep water, and, early in the season, near the surface, the young rising to artificial trout flies in rapid water.

  • Taken in deep water by Mr. Johnson, off the Commissariat stores, near a sunken rock, in deep water.

  • Inhabits weedy places in deep water, and along sandy bays.

  • The rescuers were only just in time, for, amid a cloud of smoke and steam, the ship sank in deep water.

  • For a moment the British craft seemed on the point of turning turtle; then, with a sickening movement, she slid over the obstruction into deep water.

  • They're young city horses and not broke to deep water but we'll try them," said Bim.

  • If you say so, we'll stick to the same boat and pole her over the shoals and carry her across the bends and see if we can get to good going in deep water.

  • They forded a creek in deep water, where a bridge had been washed away.

  • Fortunately, in this land of marsh and floating grass, there were a few feet of tolerably firm ground rising from the deep water.

  • If lying upon a sand-bank, or in deep water, they would generally disappear unless secured by a rope, as the spasmodic movements of the limbs and tail would set upon the water, and the body would be carried away.

  • The Furor was beached and sunk in the surf; the Pluton sank in deep water a few minutes later.

  • This harbour in which we were is beautiful, easy of access, plenty of deep water, admitting of the presence of a large number of vessels at the same time, and is an ideal place for a coaling station.

  • Had this not been done she would have gone down in deep water, and would have been to a certainty a complete loss.

  • Masonry) Defn: A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.

  • Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.

  • Cancer borealis) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water.

  • A further development of the same habit is given by Paguropsis typica, found in deep water in Indian seas, which does not inhabit a shell at any time, but carries a fleshy blanket formed by a colony of Anemones.

  • Whenever the sea is bordered by hard rocks standing well above the surface, but not rising too precipitously from deep water, we find cliffs facing seaward.

  • Those of ancient origin are commonly surrounded by deep water, while those which are more modern usually rise from continental shelves, the channels intervening between them and the mainland being less than 100 fathoms deep.

  • More than this, the rocks forming the higher portions of the Greater Antilles are largely composed of more or less consolidated ooze, such as is now found on the sea-floor in deep water.

  • In deep water, common on shells, crustacea, and rocks, sometimes imbedded in sponges.

  • According to Poli, an inhabitant of deep water; yet in mus.

  • Generally attached to shells and crustacea in deep water; sometimes to ships' bottoms.

  • South coast of England, and Tenby in South Wales, often imbedded in sponges; attached also to shells and rocks in deep water; Mus.

  • To get to the bow, they walked as it were up hill; they reached the sharp point, and looked down over the high, smooth sides which were cutting the deep water so quietly.

  • At last she reached the curve, she saw what had happened: the child, alone in the canoe, had been carried out to deep water.

  • In deep water again, and now exactly under the bridge I looked up and found the whole party regarding the Rob Roy with curiosity and smiles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both ways; deep black; deep breath; deep breathing; deep brown; deep conviction; deep enough; deep green; deep growl; deep hole; deep interest; deep mourning; deep plowing; deep ravine; deep reflection; deep river; deep rose; deep sigh; deep silence; deep sleep; deep yellow; deeply interested; deeply interesting; deeply moved; deeply religious; true civilization