lake

[ US /ˈɫeɪk/ ]
[ UK /lˈe‍ɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
  2. any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
  3. a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
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How To Use lake In A Sentence

  • Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
  • We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
  • As people who ought to know better," observed M. Kollsen, "now think the wind is alive, and call it Nipen, or the mist of the lake and river, which they call the sprite Uldra. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow"
  • A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
  • Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
  • Tåkern is quite a large lake and in olden times it must have been larger still. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
  • The rounded flakes, with less surface area to reflect light, lose brilliance.
  • She decided she would try to forget the episode by the lake.
  • Organic carbon mineralization was studied in a large humic lake in northern Sweden during a well-defined summer stratification period following high water flow during snowmelt.
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