The reason why crops burn up so quickly on sandy soils during dry seasons is because of their weak power to hold water.
It helps the clay to absorb rain, helps it to pump water faster, helps it to hold water longer in dry weather, increases ventilation, favors root penetration and increases heat absorption.
Thus you boys and girls now understand how necessary it is that a soil should be of the right texture to hold water.
Sand, you will remember, had to be doctored to hold water.
Furniture there was none, except two or three old axes, blunted with long use, a tin pannikin, a mess kid and some rude vessels to hold water, cut out of wood.
Native cooking vessels are made of bark, or of the roots or fibres of trees, woven so as to hold water, in which are placed heated stones for the purpose of cooking food.
The Yampais had 'some admirably made baskets of so close a texture as to hold water; a wicker jar coated with pine tree gum.
When the Navajos desire to marry, 'they sit down on opposite sides of a basket, made to hold water, filled with atole or some other food, and partake of it.
On the eastern slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains, blankets are made which will easily hold water.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hold water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
