The thermometer invariably rose during the southerly gales experienced in the winter, and this was very naturally attributed to the wind blowing across a large expanse of open water.
Passing Cape Hawks, and Allman Bay, an inlet which was named after the distinguished President of the Linnaean Society, we continued to push the ships in the direction of open water to the south, which we at length reached.
I think so," cried Fred; "we have come so far out upon the floes that there must beopen water near.
Anxious to atone for his past neglect without another hour's delay, he straightway walked upstairs to Mr. Pickwick, and requested leave of absence for this laudable purpose.
Sam thrust his head in at the door, 'what do you want, young man?
The canoe was by this time in open water, and I saw that she was paddling along the edge of the reef towards us.
We were by this time clear of the reef and in open water, so I went down to breakfast, leaving Bob at the tiller.
No difficulty occurred, however, and in less than ten minutes the vessel was clear of the channels, and in open water.
When the sun went down, he supposed himself to be about half-way across the space of open water, and some five-and-twenty miles dead to windward of his port of departure.
Between the islets of the Dry Tortugas and the next nearest visible keys, there is a space of open water, of some forty miles in width.
This very necessary duty was in the act of performance by Daggett, in person, even while the boats of Roswell Gardiner were towing his strained and roughly treated craft into the open water.
On the present occasion, however, the schooners were still in open water, where the wind had a long and unobstructed rake, and a sea had got up that caused both of the little craft to bury nearly to their gunwales.
When the lead closes, as often happens, the boats are hauled up on the ice and many or all of the crews come home until there are prospects of open water.
The walrus occurs only during the season of open water, and is almost always captured from the umiak with the large harpoon and rifle.
The mouths of these lagoons are generally rather wide, and closed by a bar of gravel thrown up by the waves during the season of open water.
Scarcely, however, had he returned when the ice began to break in rents and fissures, and, soon entirely disappearing, the vessels floated in open water.
Next afternoon a loud shouting was heard, and shortly afterwards a large number of natives were seen paddling their canoes through the lanes of open water, or occasionally drawing them over the ice.
By this and the disruption of the floe on the 8th of August, the Fury floated once more in open water, and was followed on the 12th by the Hecla.
During the high wind a quantity of ice had been driven southward, so that for a great distance there was no open water to be seen, but a number of huge icebergs.
February 23 we were already out of the ice and in open water.
The ice-sheet had stubbornly held on until the fresh north-easterly breeze, that appeared on the very day the southern party returned, had rapidly provided a channel of open water.
My thought is now to launch my kayak when we come to open water, load it with meat, take four spears and more lines than a strong hunter needs for a whole season; then paddle away south to discover the land of the Kablunets.
Thus the Arctic basin was found to be a zone of open water, surrounded by ice on the south, and with a patch of ice and land in its centre.
The sky cleared, and showed signs of open water ahead.
When I got up to the bridge for the morning watch we were in open water and it was blowing fresh.
From the masthead one can see a few patches of open water in different directions, but the main outlook is the same scene of desolate hummocky pack.
Gradually we could see either pack or the blink of it all along our port and starboard beam, while gradually we felt our way down a big patch of open water.
For just over a week we had been travelling in open water, and the elements had not been kind to us at all.
He watched curiously my loading of the canoe, for I had a three-mile stretch of open water, and the wind was abroad.
Then it was seen that only a small section had moved, leaving the main body still jammed, so that between the two sections lay a narrow stretch of open water.
After forcing our way ahead for some hours between the heavy floes, we were once more in open water.
It is a city of ships," said Rollo, "with streets of open water.
In the arctic seas a ship is often warped through loose ice, or along narrow and crooked channels of open water, by means of posts set in the larger and more solid floes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
