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Example sentences for "green water"

  • She spun round twice before I got her under control, and of course shipped a lot of green water--all of it in Holt's section.

  • Others, striking near the top of the fall, still had enough kick left in their tails to drive on up through the coiling bottle-green water.

  • When she reeled through another rapid beam-on without shipping more than a bucket or two of green water I concluded she was quite able to take care of herself, and so sat down to enjoy the scenery.

  • When I turned from the crowd's acclaim to con ship I discovered a good thick stream of green water slopping in, now over one quarter, now over the other.

  • The fallen boulders of grey granite contrast strongly with the dark-green water in which whole shoals of black-backed fishes swim and rise.

  • An hour later the call of the whistle rang among the pines that rolled down to the beach, and as the side-wheels beat more slowly a launch came off across the clear, green water.

  • Dark firs climbed the rugged heights above, and their scent drifted off across the clear, green water.

  • The tide was beginning to ripple as they pulled off the beach, and the yacht was plainly disclosed, shining like ivory on the clear, green water.

  • It was a surprising thing that a house could be cheerful in such surroundings: forest and gray shore and dark blue-green water.

  • Then we stood and watched the light dying on the blue-green water.

  • For miles along the shore the underlying limestone and coraline rocks crop up above the blue-green water, forming a natural sea-wall.

  • We imagined ourselves for a short time in a landlocked lake, with beautiful shoal-green water.

  • It was low tide, and we could see the formation of the reef by the lovely blue-green water inside.

  • The town lies in the little plain at the foot of the hills, Castle Hill rising 1000 feet in its rear, and the surroundings of our anchorage were very pretty, wooded hills and shoal-green water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    conspicuous part; green and; green cloth; green coat; green color; green colour; green dress; green eyes; green flame; green grass; green leaf; green leaves; green light; green peas; green peppers; green plants; green satin; green tree; green valley; green vitriol; green wood; greenish colour; greenish tinge; grow older; necessary part; rose again from the