In spite of his efforts, a wave broke on board, and sitting ankle-deep in water, he waited until there was a slightly smoother patch in front of him, and then swung the dinghy round.
Fortunately the pump was a powerful one, of the semi-rotary type, and they had nearly two miles of smoother water before they stretched out of the bay upon the other tack.
We'll have smoother water to work through, once we're round, and the tide's helping her.
The smoother surfaces in question are very frequently marked with coarse and fine parallel scratches and grooves of precisely the same nature and origin as the scratches and grooves which characterise the rocky bed of a modern glacier.
The hills are not only flatter atop, but are much smoother in outline, there being a general absence of those beetling crags and precipices which are so common in the Highland regions.
At the worst, she can drift a few days and wait for smoother weather.
The sea became smoother and we were able to open the hatches in order to air and dry the boat.
If the cutters are dipped in hot water, the edges of the tartlets will rise much higher and smoother when baking.
The dough can be kept for days by putting it in the flour barrel under the flour, and bake a few at a time The more flour that can be worked in and the smoother they can be rolled, the better and more brittle they will be.
A tide of quiet thought now came gently caressing my brain; softer and softer rose the flow, with tepid undulations smoother than balm.
I had started the idea that the golf ball should be made much smoother than it was at that time, and for four months the controversy as to the merits of the rough ball or the smoother raged.
The manager of another company was of opinion that the smoother ball would not drive straight.
The whole point of the discussion was to ascertain if it would not be better to have a much smoother ball than that with the bramble marking.
This is understandable because gophers from mountains usually are smaller and have weaker, smoother skulls than animals from low lands.
Skull: Smaller in every measurement taken, weaker, smoother and less angular; dentition smaller and weaker.
The shores, at first bold and rough, covered with dense thickets of second-growth timber, now became smoother and more fertile.
Hemlock is smoother and more flexible; but the spring soon wears out of it.
Spanish fowls lay smoother eggs than Cochins, of which the eggs are generally granulated.
Tetsujo drew a tenugui from his sleeve, mopped his damp brow, pulled his kimono collar into smoother folds, and settled, by degrees, into an appearance of tranquillity.
Also, having seen a little of the smoother side of life in England, he knew a trifle more about young women of Miss Deringham's description than his comrade did.
The reconstruction which follows this conflict, when it indeed follows, is of course a new and better adaptation; so that what involves the pain may often be a process of training which directs reaction into new and smoother channels.
Democratic government, on the contrary, is merely a means to an end, an expedient for the better and smoother government of certain states at certain junctures.
We can't change her course, much less take off until we hit one of those inlets along the Connecticut shore, and smoother water.
Why is it," she inquired presently, "that the plane rides so much smoother when you're guiding her?
The chief advantage of the multicylinder engine is the smoother drive obtained.
In smoother counties any hillock may disclose some Ouse or Avon shining miles away, whereas here the windings and branchings of the Wey and Mole go often unsuspected till one come close upon them.
At this point of land there cometh put a great river,[268] by the stream of which there has been raised a reef or shoal, extending half a mile into the sea from the point, and occasioning a smoother road.
I do not wish to say by this that we are not, on the whole, sailing in smoother water than is Spain.
It is probable that when they rounded Saquish Head they found themselves insmoother water.
It required some force to detach a mussel from its bed, and you must have recourse to your knife to remove the barnacles with which the smootherrocks are incrusted.
We ran between the two sandy points, long and low, that inclose the harbor into smoother water.
It would appear to have been worked out with some sort of chisel, and to have been afterwards madesmoother by grinding.
The grooves seem to have been produced by picking, but have subsequently been made smoother by grinding.
Poor Broughton's going in this way will make it a dealsmoother to me; and I may say that I and your mamma will be all in all to each other now about money.
The bishop did not pass a comfortable night; but in the morning his wife did read his letter, and after that things went a little smootherwith him.
That night they got under Scarborough Head where they had smoother water and succeeded in making a landing.
Johnny, knowing the country so well, avoided passing over the roughest places, keeping well out from the hills, and into the smoother flow over the broad levels.
Sudden's voice when it came was fuller than ever, smoother than ever.
Unless a man is unnaturally selfish he needs to work for some one else than himself, and I am sure I shall run a smoother and swifter course for knowing that that fine creature is waiting, at Northampton, for news of my greatness.
You sail nearer the shore, but you sail in smoother waters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smoother" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abrasive; roller; slicker; smoother
