Example sentences for: watery

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

  • ARTHUR: Not quite the rendezvous with Destiny the brochure claims, perhaps, but still--where once there was a watery impasse, now there's Anglo-French rapport and a Eurotunnel.

  • The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.

  • One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.

  • Telescopes allow you to scan the horizon for their watery exhalations.

  • When these cables fail, aircrews plunge to watery graves and flight deck personnel quite literally get cut in half.


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