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the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
they invaded our territorial waters
they were sitting by the water's edge
How To Use body of water In A Sentence
- On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen. I'm getting back, into getting back into listening to some Silver Jews
- Moving onto land may have been a survival strategy resulting from the need to abandon one shrinking body of water for another .
- She points out that there is some irony in living in a "Lake House" without a lake and even though, as I pedantically remind her, the word lake is Anglo-Saxon for "running stream," which we do have, and not a standing body of water, which we don't, her logic does not escape me. Broken Music, A Memoir
- There was a car on the bottom of a large body of water and fish were swimming around it.
- All the eye can see are evergreens, a placid body of water and the occasional loon.
- According to a Kansas State page on parasitology, there are some types of parasitic catfishes in the Amazon mostly in the genus Vandellia, and commonly called candiru that have been known to invade the human urethra, often while humans are urinating into a body of water. News - latimes.com
- If the marsh is divided by an actual river, it may be best to embank it in two separate tracts; losing the margins, that have been recommended, outside of the dykes, and building the necessary additional length of these, rather than to contend with a large body of water. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
- The process is known as "wind setdown," which is defined as a drop in water level caused by wind stress acting on the surface of a body of water for an extended period of time. Parting The Red Sea: The Scientific Explanation (VIDEO)
- A waterspout is a whirling body of water, which rises from the sea like a sharp-pointed pillar. The Coral Island
- Chezzetcook Inlet on the Eastern Shore is an attractive body of water with extensive salt marshes and mudflats, but it has a problem.