Example sentences for: water-courses

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

  • Apart from these words and lake , words and phrases directly associated with thoughts of water and reinforcing the sense of obsession include pool, springs, drainage hole, clay hole, flood, channel, water-courses, water-hole, rock-hole, drink, drinkable, running water, stream , and native well .

  • Stream is often said not to be used in Australia except in metaphorical ways, normally being replaced by creek . Warburton's use: “sandbanks intercept the stream, which finally splits into narow water-courses and spreads itself over the plains, and so it ends as a creek” suggests a somewhat more complex relation between the two words.


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