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Example sentences for "broken water"

  • We'll be fairly in broken water if we drift in any farther.

  • Nevertheless her pointed stern enabled her to manoeuvre in broken water, such as had to be expected in Yenikeui Bay, where it would be almost a matter of impossibility to approach the stranded trawler in a steam cutter or pinnace.

  • And he pointed to the turmoil of broken water in Yenikeui Bay.

  • Buffeted by the waves, his limbs completely numbed by the action of the icy-cold water, Terence was hardly conscious of what was happening, till he found himself being lifted clear of the chaos of broken water.

  • Looking seawards the vista was a turmoil of broken water, divided by the Island of Fetlar.

  • Just then a brilliant flash of lightning played upon the turmoil of broken water without.

  • Myriads of air-bubbles rose to the surface, causing a considerable patch of broken water on the otherwise smooth sea.

  • All the while the flotilla was slowly drifting shorewards, the rearmost boats being almost inside the broad expanse of broken water.

  • A darkling patch, a blurred shadow, in the face of sea and sky, with a luminous curl of broken water astern.

  • The flood tide making over the shoals sets in with a thrussh of broken water alee of the wreck.

  • Wave counters wave and sets up a running break on the surface that draws the eye by its similarity to a sheering periscope; not for the first time we turn our glasses on the ripples, and scan the spurt of broken water in apprehension.

  • Vain indeed must be our attempt to describe the awful aspect, the mad music, the fearful violence of "broken water" on the Break!

  • The life-boat comes swiftly on, running before the still heavy gale; now rising like a cork to the mounting seas, or plunging boldly through the surf and broken water.

  • Certainly, however, the waterman can say that a good horse may carry a bad rider well, but that the best boat will not take a bad boatman through a mile of broken water.

  • Next there will be found some notes upon rocks and currents in broken water; and lastly, some further remarks on the "Kent," and a few miscellaneous observations upon various points.

  • So I had mentally resolved (but entirely forgot) to stop in good time and to climb up the rocks and investigate matters ahead before going into an unknown run of broken water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural exports; broken bone; broken covenant; broken glass; broken head; broken only; broken pottery; broken stone; broken voice; broken water; central authority; each tooth; fair ladies; for every; founded upon; keep out; like love; lucky fellow; never loved; past eleven; public opinion; rode till; runaway slaves; sang froid; through thick and thin; white gown