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Example sentences for "black water"

  • It had broken from the field on which they were marooned and was under way on a diagonal across a quiet lane of black water, towards a second great field lying fifty fathoms or somewhat less to the south.

  • The railroad was all torn up, and burned to the bridge at Black Water, by our forces.

  • At last we got on to steamboats and were transferred to Vicksburg, and from there to Black Water on the cars.

  • We remained at this point two months, and on the 26th day of September the brigade returned to Black Water again, pitching their tents in the old camping ground.

  • After eating, the march was resumed until we arrived at Black Water, and after staying here one night and part of a day before crossing the stream, a fine horse was purchased by the privates of the 11th Missouri and presented to Gen.

  • He said it'd take a heap to tempt him to try and poke into the awful center of Black Water Swamps.

  • Then we're going to start right away to try and find the middle of Black Water Swamps--is that the idea, Paul?

  • So they went to the trader and inquired what kind of black water he had that affected people so strangely; and the trader told them he had only the same kind of water they drank, and brought out his pail, that they all might drink.

  • And the eldest of the two warriors replied, “You have lied to us, for the trader has no black water.

  • The faint sounds rapidly increased in vigor until even a novice could have decided it was an airplane making almost directly toward their strange camp on Black Water Bayou.

  • He will make all arrangements with Jethro in the morning, so we can expect to find the man waiting at the rendezvous--Black Water Bayou, two nights from now; for I calculate to drop down there just while the twilight holds.

  • Gianfraneesco Morosini, city magistrate in Constantinople, reports to the Venetian senate the use by the Turks "of a black water, being the infusion of a bean called cavee.

  • Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

  • That is the boat that goes across the Black Water of Dee," she said, pointing to a small boat which lay under the bank on the left.

  • He had heard the cry across the Black Water.

  • Every night there was the calling from the green plot across the Black Water.

  • Some of the warriors were willing he should do this; others asserted that he had plenty of black water left, and was going to trade with their enemy, the Sioux.

  • One day the big chief visited the store; the trader led him into a back room, swore him to secrecy, and gave him a drink of black water.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black ants; black band; black bird; black color; black enamel; black flies; black folks; black hair; black head; black hole; black pigment; black sand; black satin; black sheep; black silk; black slaves; black velvet; black walnut; carte blanche; left free; little chap; microwave radio relay and coaxial cable; narrow neck; purple flowers; their lands; try and