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Example sentences for "watering"

Lexicographically close words:
waterfalls; waterfowl; waterfront; waterhole; waterholes; waterings; waterish; waterless; waterlilies; waterline
  1. We cherish antipathies for a week and friendships for a month; we see people with different eyes, when we view them through the medium of acquaintanceship at watering places.

  2. It was the diary of a guest at the watering place, of the last occupant of my room, and had been forgotten at the moment of departure.

  3. This is the principal distraction of watering places.

  4. The watering pot leaked and my feet got more water than the flowers.

  5. He yawned, his mouth watering at the thought of sausage, the good sausage the soldiers have, and he felt a gnawing at his stomach.

  6. And the melancholy of watering places, the monotony of days that are all alike, proves hourly an incentive to this heart expansion.

  7. We went on shore in the evening, to see how the people who were employed in wooding and watering went on, and were informed that an axe had been stolen.

  8. It was now proposed to erect a camp on shore for the sick, and to carry on the watering and other necessary operations.

  9. They now began to appreciate the orders that no one should stray alone from the camp, and that the watering party should consist of a powerful guard.

  10. Such a utensil was invaluable for watering the horses; also for washing clothes, or for receiving a supply of rain-water during a shower, from the camp-sheets suspended above the bath.

  11. The primary use of the car track is for public travel, not for watering horses.

  12. That a driver, for the purpose of watering his horses, has the right to encroach on the trolley track.

  13. Mrs. Stutt was watering at the other side of the house now, and the two were alone.

  14. By constantly stirring the top soil after your plants appear, the necessity of watering can be largely avoided except in very dry weather.

  15. I find that the digging and planting including watering of 1500 plants makes ten hours' work with elimination of all waste motion.

  16. Without giving any explanation to the girl, without even telling her that he was leaving her, he leapt into his saddle and rode down to the stream where the two wagon men were watering the mules.

  17. Bob Medlicott were down at the creek, watering the horses, I looked about for a stalk of sage-grass or something that would go into the stem.

  18. The Snow narrative of the experience follows: "The Colorado River, the Little Colorado and all the springs and watering places were frozen over.

  19. The great spring is used only for watering cattle, and the spring at Flagstaff appears to have been lost in the spread of civilization.

  20. Fort Moroni, at LeRoux Spring One of the most important watering places of northeastern Arizona is LeRoux Spring, seven miles northwest of Flagstaff on the southwestern slope of the San Francisco Mountains.

  21. We made the round of the dead, the engages taking their weapons and various belongings; then we went back to the barricade for dinner, first, however, watering and picketing the hungry horses.

  22. The tanks below are at least equally old with the town, having a casing of hewn stone, now much dilapidated, and large stone troughs for watering cattle.

  23. It was difficult to decide; but at the well of the village while we were watering our animals, we met a man and his wife, who told us they knew where to find the SirdĂ­eh, and were themselves on their way to join them.

  24. Considering its size, it is said to contain more trout than any lake in this wilderness, and it is also celebrated as a watering place for deer and moose.

  25. Charles Edward had been watering the garden, and everything was sweet.

  26. Mother was in the vegetable garden watering the transplanted lettuce.

  27. We passed many wells from which the people were watering their fields, and found those which yielded a brackish water were considered to be much more valuable for irrigation than those which yielded sweet water.

  28. I came to a neighbouring well at which four pair of bullocks were employed watering the surrounding fields of wheat for the market, and vegetables for the families of the cultivators.

  29. Many of the tanks, too, are indispensably necessary for watering the cattle employed in agriculture.

  30. But, directly he would have made a step to come nearer to her, she was aware of his presence, pushed away the watering pot, and turned her flushed face towards him.

  31. Bending her curly black head, she pressed her forehead against a cool watering pot that stood on the parapet, and both her lovely hands, with the rings he knew so well, clasped the pot.

  32. John opened the stable door and led him to the watering trough in the barn-yard.

  33. They drank the cool water in the watering trough and then went into their stalls in the stable.

  34. When they reached the barn, Farmer Hill gave Prince a drink from the watering trough, opened the big door and led him into the stall.

  35. Along the hillock flows a streamlet, issuing from the ravine, and quietly watering the fields.

  36. There is no doubt, however, that all crops which can be raised without watering are superior in flavor and in nutritive power to those grown by the aid of irrigation.

  37. There is no difficulty in restoring the ancient channels, or in constructing new, and thus watering not only all the soil that the wisdom of the Pharaohs had improved, but much additional land.

  38. All this evil had arisen from Lady Berryl's passion for living in London and at watering places.

  39. She ran up a back staircase which led to her dressing-room, but suddenly stopped when she came to the landing-place, for she found Emilie watering her plants.

  40. But hers was the true, practical Dutch mind: she appreciated the scene only for the assurance it gave her of illimitable watering power for flocks and herds.

  41. But why has Brighton the preference as a watering place?

  42. When the soil is deep, no watering will be required.

  43. It requires a light, rich, cool soil, a warm position, and frequent watering in summer.

  44. Easily propagated by sowing in autumn, and keeping the seedlings in a cold frame through the winter, giving them air as often as possible, and watering very moderately.

  45. It was thus with the Reader when he syllabled, with watering lips, guess after guess at the half-opened basket.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affusion; baptism; bath; bathing; corruption; cutting; deluge; drenching; excretory; immersion; inundation; irrigation; lachrymal; lachrymose; lacing; lacteal; moistening; pollution; rheumy; rinsing; salivary; secretive; secretory; seminal; serous; soaking; sopping; spattering; spermatic; splashing; sprinkling; submersion; watering; watery


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    watering place; watering places