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Example sentences for "water mark"

  • The tide was down but the little beach only displayed the usual debris at high-water mark.

  • Lamenting the loss of time, Mark lent a hand and the launch was soon above high-water mark.

  • A small spring of water has been found below high-water mark close to the landing place.

  • The water of the river is very muddy, and has risen about six feet above the ordinary high-water mark.

  • A long bank of stone standing up as a low cliff, ten or twelve feet above high-water mark.

  • You could look down into the green from the last steep ridge at high-water mark, and if you looked sharp you might see one abound.

  • These hills are covered to high-water mark, with scanty somewhat stunted trees, the most of which have no foliage.

  • The vegetation within the maximum high water mark consists of a few scraggy shrubs.

  • The rocks are serpentine and grey limestone, presenting angular masses which project into the stream; the former in all places within high-water mark is of a dark-brown colour.

  • The first battery built here was just above high-water mark, and nearly half a mile long.

  • The town itself is built on a level plain scarcely above high-water mark, as it has been submerged by some of the great floods of former years.

  • The town of Randolph, which formerly contained about three hundred inhabitants, is situated above high-water mark on a narrow strip of land nearly three hundred yards wide, behind which rises a bluff ninety feet high and very steep.

  • Along the summit of the steep levee, close to the line of stores, there is a row of massive posts, three feet thick and twenty feet high, and forty or fifty feet above the usual low water mark.

  • She is built on three terraces, the first twenty, the second one hundred and fifty, and the third two hundred feet above low-water mark.

  • The plateau upon which the business part of the city is built is sixty feet above the low-water mark of the river.

  • This bridge is two thousand seven hundred and fifty feet long, with eleven spans, each span two hundred and fifty feet in width, and elevated fifty feet above high water mark.

  • The low woody portion of this island is strewed with flat blocks of the same kind of recent coral conglomerate that occurs in situ on the beach, also with quantities of pumice twelve feet above high-water mark of spring tides.

  • On the Amboyna side of the isthmus there is a small river which has been continued by a shallow canal to within thirty yards of high-water mark on the other side.

  • Close to the town I noticed the foundation of a ruined house below high-water mark, indicating recent subsidence.

  • At one point there was quite a cave, the floor of which would be some twenty feet above high-water mark, and its roof about the same distance higher.

  • Certainly no mariners see so many or such huge sharks as whalemen; but, in spite of all our previous experience, this day touched high-water mark.

  • Just then the boat touched at a mouldering flight of stairs, crusted with green ooze to high-water mark, and covered now with snow.

  • Below high-water mark it's different; the sand is covered up and smoothed out twice a day.

  • From this beach, at an elevation of twenty-five feet above high-water mark, and at a distance of about 150 feet from the present shore, I obtained more than fifty species of living marine shells.

  • This ripple is not entirely confined to the beach between high and low water mark, but is also produced on sands which are constantly covered by water.

  • This buried forest has been traced from Cromer to near Kessingland, a distance of more than forty miles, being exposed at certain seasons between high and low water mark.

  • Estelle suggested they should go as far into the cave as possible--for Alan had told her that the end of it was above high-water mark--and remain there till the tide went down.

  • Fortunately for him the ascent became far easier as soon as he got above high-water mark.

  • Julien's face was raised, his eyes seeking some place above high-water mark to which he could take Estelle.

  • His quick eye noted the high-water mark, and some projections of rocky wall which it would be quite possible for him to reach, and remain in safety till the tide went down.

  • A solitary pine-tree now and again, and the little cluster at the end of the path, proved that this part of the bay was far above high-water mark.

  • He helped Maseden to break and cut small branches of the fragrant pines, and pile them beneath the largest tree they could find on a comparatively level piece of ground above high-water mark.

  • Apparently, at this point, he was some twenty feet above high-water mark.

  • Moreover, wreckage began to line the beach at high-water mark.

  • The year 550 was the high-water mark of the success of the Gothic arms.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "water mark" 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:
    first fruits; four great; magic ring; singular coincidence; water bath; water buffalo; water could; water enough; water fish; water from; water glass; water hole; water home; water lake; water must; water pressure; water shells; water species; water springing; water through; water vessels; water were; water wheel; watering place; watering places; watery grave