It is the most unmanageable food that we "eat," for we can neither cook it nor wash it like solid food, nor filter it nor boil it like water, except on a very limited scale.
Electricity is sometimes called a fluid, and the fact of collecting it like water in a jar, helps us to understand this analogy.
The solid alum has become liquid, like water; the particles are now free to move without let or hindrance from friction.
Ammonia is capable of combining with a number of substances, forming, like water, substances of various degrees of stability.
The majority of the compounds of oxygen are, like water, very stable, and do not give up their oxygen under the ordinary conditions of nature.
Over the green surface of the ash sprays above, the breeze drew and rippled it like water.
Thus without stay they always sink, Thus fainting still they fail, Despair they up like water drink, These prisoners have no bail.
But let justice roll on like water, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.
The experiments were then varied by using solution of ammonia instead of solution of potassa; and as it, when pure, is like water, a bad conductor (554.
The experiment was repeated several times, and I am led to conclude that in this case the current has not intensity sufficient to cause the decomposition of the chloride of lead; and further, that, like water (974.
Know thou that the fire of youth is (fugitive) like water.
Like water in a great river and like wind in the desert, Another day passes out of the period of my existence.
The whole tale came bubbling up like water out of a spring.
She was vastly calm, though her eyes were full of a woe that seemed to well up like water out of her soul.
Like a golden Helen should she rise in the east; blood should flow about her feet like water; I would tear down kingdoms to pile her up a throne.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
