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Example sentences for "comparatively shallow"

  • Even its thick marine limestones are the deposits of comparatively shallow water.

  • The ends of piers and wharves, in comparatively shallow water, are favorable localities for fishing.

  • Fish rise to the fly only in comparatively shallow water, and are found in such situations in bright weather only early and late in the day.

  • No fish will rise to the artificial fly except in comparatively shallow water, or when near the surface, and this is especially true of the white-bass when it resorts to the depths after the spring run is over.

  • In comparison with most of the harbors, however, it is comparatively shallow, needing a good deal of dredging to make it available for deep draft vessels.

  • On the north coast of Oriente we have a number of comparatively shallow harbors, some of which furnish very good protection for vessels in bad weather.

  • These island dotted bays, separated from each other only by islands, and connected by comparatively shallow channels, extend from Punta Hicacos, some 300 miles eastward, to the Harbor of Nuevitas.

  • An excellent "little neck" fishery is carried on in the upper part of the Mill Pond, in comparatively shallow water, comprising an area of 3 acres.

  • Practically all the digging is done in comparatively shallow water, with short-handled rakes or tongs.

  • Tongs are employed principally by the smaller oyster growers, and on ground where the water is comparatively shallow.

  • Nay, by far the larger portions of our marine formations have accumulated in comparatively shallow water--sandstones and shales (sand and mud) being by far the most common kinds of rock that we encounter.

  • All the sedimentary strata with which we are acquainted have been accumulated over the surface of that great plateau, and consequently are of comparatively shallow-water origin.

  • The work accomplished by those agents upon a coast-line is most conspicuous in regions where the surface of the continental plateau is occupied by comparatively shallow seas.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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