As the river had to be crossed, the shallowest part was chosen.
The shallowest completed flowing well in Queensland at that date was 60 ft.
The shallowest is given as at Manfred Downs, at 10 ft.
On the Mexican plateau, however, it snows every winter, and if the lake does not actually freeze, its temperature must fall very considerably in the shallowest parts.
It is shallowest in the middle, and level towards the west shore, having two fathoms of water or less.
At low tide the water in the channel between the islands is three and a half and four fathoms deep, in its shallowest part.
The deep lead was thrown constantly, and we found five and four fathoms in the shallowest places, near the channel.
The water held out to carry the last stick of timber over the shallowest rapids.
Next Orde assigned two men to each of the queer-shaped sawhorses, and instructed them to place the horses in a row across the shallowest part of the river, and broadside to the stream.
At our comming vp to Santos we found foure fadom and a halfe water in the shallowest place, and the like we found within a league after we were departed from S.
Once or twice the wanderers altered their course, in consequence of unexpectedly stepping into deep water; for they knew that the boat had lodged on the shallowest part of the rift.
Killamucks river is 85 yards wide, rappid and 3 feet deep in the shallowest part.
The shallowest parts of the Dogger Bank were found to be forty-two feet under water, except in one place, where the wreck of a ship had caused a shoal.
The speed-well grew in the shallowest water of the pool, and all around its margin, but the flowers were hardly seen at first, so deep was the green shadow cast by the trees.
Mary might have been deceived by the shallowest pretender; but Olivia's eyes devoured every glance; Olivia's greedy ears drank in every tone; and she knew that Edward Arundel loved her stepdaughter.
Upon reaching the bank of the river, horsemen upon the best horses survey the route by zigzagging up and down, finding the shallowest water upon the bars, which are constantly shifting.
The first driver keeps his eye upon the careful guides, picking the shallowest route.
You owe, therefore, a debt of gratitude to the Times and the Daily Mail for bringing Encyclopaedias of all kinds into the range of the shallowest purse and in contact with the shallowest heads in the community.
The ice in the shallowest part was at this time several inches thinner than in the middle.
The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and shallowest coves, some days or even weeks before the general freezing.
But here the method fails in a first requisite,--universality; for even the shallowest array of historical proof requires some book-learning to apprehend.
No more, however, than thirteen feet could now be found upon the shallowest part of the bar; and, consequently, the idea of refitting in Oyster Harbour was abandoned.
The shallowestwater was seventeen feet, between the south-east point of Goose Island and the opposite west point of the middle beach; after which it deepened; and abreast of the middle rock there was 7 fathoms.
The shallowest depth he found was 3 fathoms, after which the water deepened to 7 and 10, past the north-east point and out to sea.
The boats now ran practically on an even keel, which would give them the greatest bearing on the water and enable them to travel over the shallowest water possible.
Alex posted them in a line across a narrow quarter of the marsh, so that each gun would be perhaps a hundred yards from his neighbor, Jesse, the shortest of the party, taking the shallowest water nearest to the road beyond the marsh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shallowest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
