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Example sentences for "small lakes"

  • It is well watered by South Clam creek and tributaries, and has a multitude of small lakes.

  • There are many tributary small streams, and a large number of small lakes, of which Cedar lake is the largest.

  • After crossing a number of small lakes, we arrived at the steep shores of Halkett Inlet about 11 o'clock, having been eight hours in walking as many miles.

  • We now turned to the east of north, and after crossing a number of small lakes, arrived at the sea (which here formed a deep inlet) at a few minutes before midnight.

  • Our course overland was nearly due south, and we passed over a number of small lakes, from which the snow had been partially removed by the joint action of the sun's rays and the wind.

  • The country around Cumberland House is flat and swampy, and is much intersected by small lakes.

  • This was the only consideration that could have induced us to remove to a chain of small lakes connected by long portages.

  • I learned from an old Indian, that the fall and rapid I met with on my way to the sea the preceding season, could be avoided, by following a chain of small lakes.

  • Leaving this stream, our route lay over marshes and small lakes; the country flat, yielding dwarf pine intermixed with larch.

  • Our route in the morning led us through a chain of small lakes, and brought us out again on Whale River, on which we travelled till four, P.

  • Our route lay through swamps and small lakes, with strips of wood intervening.

  • Passing Crow River, we find a continuous grove of oak-trees on our left, and in five miles a series of small lakes on our right, not wooded but abounding in game.

  • We continued to follow the general course of the stream upon whose banks we were encamped, and after riding eight miles we crossed another small stream, rising in a chain of small lakes south of our last camp.

  • This stream appears to take its rise in a number of small lakes, and the branch crossed this morning is slightly brackish.

  • A level plain, abounding in small lakes, extends from the top of these banks to the base of a line of hills which lie in front of the Rocky Mountains.

  • A few miles from the coast the land rises from three to five hundred feet above the sea, and presents many precipitous limestone cliffs, and chains of small lakes.

  • The interior of the country, as seen from the top of the cliffs, appeared to be nearly level, and to abound in small lakes.

  • The latter river has its source in small lakes in Sikkim, south of the Donkia mountain, a shoulder of which the pass crosses, commanding a magnificent view into Tibet.

  • Occasionally one meets a half-breed who has travelled through it, and the rumour current amongst the fur-traders is that the country contains nothing but small lakes, jackpine and rock outcrop.

  • The country around Cumberland House is flat and swampy and is much intersected by small lakes.

  • The small-mouth bass was placed in weedy ponds or small lakes in which only the large-mouth bass would live.

  • In fishing from the bank in deeper streams, or from a boat on small lakes, whereby the fish is better enabled to see the angler, longer casts are necessary, or the angler must screen himself from observation by trees or bushes on the bank.

  • The usual method of angling for this fish is from an anchored boat on ponds or small lakes, or from the bank.

  • Being confined to small lakes, the cisco does not grow so large as the lake herring.

  • These rivers are connected by a chain of small lakes, which you may trace on any good map of the province.

  • In addition to the land he is entitled to as an officer in the British service, my husband is in treaty for the purchase of an eligible lot by small lakes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small lakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could perceive; small amounts; small bird; small bodies; small children; small compass; small country; small dice; small family; small flock; small fort; small fragment; small groups; small numbers; small people; small pica; small pool; small pots; small present; small spot; small stock; small tribe; small tube; small value; small voice; small volume