These lake ciscoes remain for most of the year in the depths of the lake, coming to the surface only in search of certain insects, and to shallow water only in the spawning season.
They are taken in dredges, and have no resemblance to those found on the shore or in shallow water; yet beds of them occur at various heights on the hills.
When a vessel is stranded in shallow water, it usually becomes the nucleus of a sand-bank, as has been exemplified in several of our harbors, and this circumstance tends greatly to its preservation.
The propelling power is derived in these cases from the breaking of the waves, which run fastest in shallow water, and for a short space far exceed the most rapid currents in swiftness.
Although the shock in its passage under the deep ocean gives no trace of its progress, it no sooner gets into soundings or shallow water, than it gives rise to another and smaller wave of the sea.
After travelling seven miles, in a north-west direction, we came on a dense Myal scrub, skirted by a chain of shallow water-holes.
In the course of feeding it wades unconcernedly through pools of shallow water, and, if so minded, hesitates neither to swim nor to dive.
A shrimp it can undoubtedly catch; and it exercises its vocation in shallow water, such as shrimps alone inhabit or small fish no larger than shrimps.
It is common in shallow water in the Northern States.
Hand lead, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water.
There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water.
To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
Clasping pairs have been found on the banks of streams and in shallow water in streams.
Usually males call from the ground at the edge of the water or not infrequently sit in shallow water, but sometimes males call from bushes and low trees around the water.
After sitting for several minutes in shallow water, the female (with male on her back) swam part way across the pool and grasped an emergent stick with one hand.
Illustration: "Bodo watched them wade through the shallow water"] The largest horse led the herd up the trail.
So it is with the black in pursuit of a fish or turtle in shallow water.
Men armed with spears surround and exterminate a shoal detected in shallow water; and the boomerang and the nulla-nulla as well as the spear form the weapons of the solitary fisherman.
As the quahaugs were thinned out in shallow water, the fishermen moved farther and farther out, using long rakes, until 60-foot rakes are now used at a depth of 50 feet.
As the digger has a short handle of 5 feet, it can be used only in shallow water, where the quahauger, wading in the water, turns out the quahaugs with this narrow rake.
The ordinary garden rake, equipped with a basket back of wire netting, is in more general use in shallow water, either by wading or from a boat, as it has the advantage of being wider than the potato digger.
The second method, applicable only in shallow water, employs the use of a claw rake with a much shorter handle.
These beds, from the number of littoral species, must have been accumulated in shallow water; but not, judging from the stratification of the gravel and the layers of marl, on a beach.
It will also appear, in the sequel, how much light the doctrine of a continued subsidence of land may throw on the manner in which a series of strata, formed in shallow water, may have accumulated to a great thickness.
By this agency a submarine platform is produced on which we may walk for some distance from the beach in shallow water, the increase of depth being very gradual, until we reach a point where the bottom plunges down suddenly.
Reclamation of land has reduced extensive areas of shallow water, lagoons, marsh land, etc.
Alcids feed in deep or shallow water, depending on food distribution.
The diet of cod changes from small crustaceans in shallow water to progressively larger food that eventually includes herring, sand lance, shrimp, and crabs.
Some species shun the light, but all are apparently confined to shallow water.
In both localities the zoaria were found in shallow water.
The zoaria of Fredericella are usually found attached to solid objects in shallow water, but a form described as F.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shallow water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
