At the same instant a splash was heard, and the lank form bent over, as he pressed the long pole against the bottom of the river and resumed his slow walking toward the stern.
Steall a Mhunidh (shteyole a vonie), Splash of the Pisvache.
The only sounds which broke the stillness were the notes of birds and the croaking of the bull-frog, mingled with the measured splash of the oars.
We had already gone to bed, in preparation for an early start in the morning, and I was lying awake, when my attention was attracted by the splash of paddles and an animated conversation going on upon the water.
We heard the creak of blocks as the ship lowered her boat, heard the splash of oars as the boat came forging toward us, saw in the stern the bright bars of a lieutenant's uniform.
A single softsplash came from the great marsh, then a yell so wild and weird that to this very day the memory of it sometimes sets me to shivering, as if I myself were only a heathen savage and not a white man and a Christian.
After her experience she will doubtless be more sympathetic toward those of us who are torpedoed daily and weekly and monthly and have to splash around for the amusement of a curious public.
Mr Ebony grinned with satisfaction, and threw his own line over the side just as a splash behind me made me turn in time to see a rope running out rapidly, evidently attached to some kind of anchor.
There came a splash from a dropped anchor, and more splashing as its crew waded ashore.
Then, with a faint creak of traveling blocks she rounded gracefully up into the wind and a muffled splash told that her anchor had been dropped.
I've heard mullet jump when they made a splash like you'd thrown an anchor overboard.
They do not hear the splash and roar of the water ahead of them.
It brought with it the splash of rivulet and the rush of cataract.
There was a long silence, broken only by the splash of the oars and by a steady flow of conversation on the part of the two Greek genii, who seemed impervious to the midday beams and entirely absorbed in one another.
Sometimes for an instant he scanned the surface of the lake for signs of breaking fish or splash of migrant water bird.
Among the growth of the lake shore, duck, coot, and grebe voices commingled in the last chattering hastened splash of securing supper before bedtime; crying killdeers crossed the water, and overhead the nighthawks massed in circling companies.
He plunged with a splash and swam vigorously for a few minutes, his white body growing pink under the sting of the chilled water.
Veins of quartz shone under the metallic plating like cut crystal, like cloudy opals; here was a splash of vermilion, there a patch of amber; bands of pallid ochre stained it.
It seemed tosplash upon her, to run down her like water.
Buck had dropped his glass and sent a great splash of wine over the road.
Her seat was rocking like a swing, and she heard dimly the splash of waters; these merged unaccountably again into the purring of a motor.
Still, she preferred to have the prince jump in with her; and the splash they made before was nothing to the splash they made now.
This rock was much higher than the other, and the splash and the dive were tremendous.
A cold wind with the not too distant splash of some object brought his thoughts back to the present.
Each in a returnsplash shimmied the dinghy making for a resurgence of what, until now, had been a barely muted panic.
Then there was another pause, filled up only by the splash of something falling from the roof--by the wash of the water against the smooth rock.
He could smell the acrid smoke and could hear the splash of heavy drops upon the saturated soil, while the hoarse roar of the river came up in fitful cadence from the depths of the valley.
The locker cushions on which he lay felt unpleasantly damp; his blankets, which were not much drier, smelt moldy; and there was a dismal splash and gurgle of water among the timbers of the plunging craft.
He had left the hatch slightly open, and a confused uproar reached him from outside; the wail of wind-tossed trees; the furious splash of ripples against the bows; and the drumming of the halyards upon the mast.
Then he, too, lay down, and only the soft splash of the tiny ripples broke the silence while the fire sank lower.
Kitty, urged by Drayton, broke into a little song with a smooth, swinging cadence that went harmoniously with the measured splash of oars; and Vane enjoyed it all.
The water was now rippling softly about the sloop, and the splash of canoe paddles came up out of the distance in rhythmic cadence.
The long ranks of tumbling combers did not look encouraging, and when the plunges grew sharper and the brine began to splash across the coaming that protected the well he wished that they had hauled down a second reef.
Wilfred was just one big red splash before her yearning eyes; he blinded her.
You knew Henrietta was still seeing the big red splash of Romance, behind which the figure of her husband was totally obscured.
I heard the signal gun fired, and shortly afterwards a great splash of boats and oars, and a vast chattering and shouting of tongues announced the arrival of a P.
The road was filled suddenly with the tramp and splash of troops marching, their wet helmets and their rifles gleaming in the coppery sunset.
The cross fell forward with a dull splintering splashinto the mud of the road.
Above the splash of feet through mud and the jingle of equipment, came occasionally the ping, ping of shrapnel bursting at the next cross-roads at the edge of the woods.
Clear stars burned above the mastheads, which swayed to and fro athwart them, while the splash of tumbling waters and the sting of flung-up spray seemed charged with healing.
There was no sound but the splash of moisture and the fall of weary feet, but Maxwell, with his pistol loose in its waterproof holster, marched the more cautiously.
A splash was followed by a hoarse exclamation as the man slipped into the water up to the knee; then Dane heard the thud of a flung out fish, and sat very still, for it would clearly be injudicious to present himself just then.
Foam lapped about the bows, the splash of paddles swelled into a resonant thudding, and Gilby pulled hard upon his helm.
In a short time the splash of oars was heard, and the boat came alongside.
Many of them must have been big fellows, by the loudsplash they made.
Then some huge berg topples over with a roar and gigantic splash that may be heard several miles, the waters being thrown aloft like smoke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
