Example sentences for: lakes

How can you use “lakes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Back Lakes and Hutongs

  • • "Direct response" lakes or streams manifest changes more quickly, whereas "delayed response" lakes or streams manifest changes over a longer period of time.

  • Today the park is a delightful landscape of woods, rhododendron groves, small lakes, and hills, with an arboretum, botanic gardens, sports fields, bicycle routes, riding stables, buffalo paddock, and hiking trails.

  • Contamination of the Great Lakes has led to the bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in fish, particularly the larger predator species prized by sport-fishers [ 1 2 3 ] . These compounds are synthetic organochlorines (OC) that, along with dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethene (DDE), comprise the bulk of OC residues found in human tissues [ 4 ] , and some of the highest body burdens of PCBs in humans are found among fish consumers [ 5 6 7 8 ] . Consumption of these contaminated Great Lakes fish has been associated with several adverse reproductive outcomes including shortened menstrual cycle [ 9 ] , reduced fecundability [ 10 11 ] , reduced neonatal size [ 12 ] , and neurologic disorders [ 13 14 15 ] .

  • This was determined from the responses to the following question on the questionnaire: "Since you first began eating sport-caught fish from the Great Lakes, has the amount of fish that you have eaten each year increased a lot, increased somewhat, remained about the same, decreased somewhat or decreased a lot?"


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