How To Use Water down In A Sentence

  • Such places can offer abundant supplies of heat, usually tapped by sinking boreholes and circulating water down them to collect the heat.
  • The fish have been shoaled in the shallower, faster, water downstream of the numerous weirs that bear testament to the river's industrial heritage.
  • Atkinson, who mounted a successful campaign in 2004 to water down legislation aimed at criminalising expressions of religious hatred, has returned to the fray to defend the art of gay leg-pulling. Archive 2007-11-01
  • Stooping down, he placed the cup into his father's shaky hands and watched him take a slow draught, dribbling the water down his stubbly, unshaven chin.
  • In the negotiations, they agreed to water down their original stiff demand to one acceptable to both sides.
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  • These develop most commonly on gradients, where seepage of water down the slope through the surface soil is interrupted by barriers of rock, or of clay reaching or approaching the surface.
  • The former Vermont governor warned that if the party allowed the four moderates to further water down the bill (or defeat it altogether) it could lead to primary challenges or a drop in fundraising from the party's base. Archive 2009-11-01
  • By forcing water down into the rocks, the heated water would produce steam which in turn could be used to drive power generating turbines.
  • You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long.
  • All that whitewater is headed for shore on top of comparatively calm water down below.
  • The strip of metal was light enough on his shoulder and he could, for a while longer, ignore the steady drip of water down his neck.
  • The Obama administration apparently cannot understand why its supporters are not in awe over its ability to politick, compromise, and water down great legislation into mediocre laws, without getting anything for it in return. David A. Love: The Professional Left Wants Its F.D.R. Now
  • Oct. 1 – Flooding becomes full-blown crisis as water levels at key dams breaches capacity limits, forcing an accelerated release of water down-river toward central Thailand and Bangkok. Thailand Takes a Risk to Ease Flood
  • She tipped the dirty water down the drain.
  • She poured the bucket of dirty water down the drain.
  • This drives the nearshore surface water down and away from the coast.
  • In a surprise statement last week, the European Commission announced its intention to water down the rules.
  • You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long.
  • On the other hand the stormwater downpipes that just discharge onto the ground didn't seem to cause any problems, so that may be how we do the stormwater separation.
  • Sugar beet growers in Yorkshire were urged yesterday to lobby their MPs in a bid to water down reforms that could put thousands of jobs in the UK at risk.
  • Is it not true that we habitually refuse to take seriously His teaching about man; that we water down His paradoxes and conventionalize His sayings; that we blunt the sharpness of His precepts, and shirk the tremendous sternness of His demands? Religious Reality
  • And, now, he sometimes brought home a fish or two from the deeper water down in the pasture lot; and no success in after life would ever bring to the man the same thrill of delight that was felt by the boy when he landed a tiny "chub" or "shiner. Their Yesterdays
  • You have to water down the medicine before drinking it.
  • Of squama aeris, as much as three specilla can contain, with the gluten of summer wheat: levigate, pound, form into pills, and give; it purges water downwards. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • She poured boiling water down the sink.
  • Let set for a few minutes, then pour a kettle of boiling water down the drain to flush it.
  • I was under the impression the lake refilled during the 2003 God-induced floods that devastated the Rio Lerma basin and caused extensive and terrible damage to agricultural lands in Guanajuato State and elsewhere which required that the water management agency release water downstream to prevent further flood damage from poorly managed and dangerously overfilled reservoirs. Water in Chapala
  • Make grassed waterways wide and shallow to slow the water down and to prevent it from rilling and then gullying the waterway.
  • Anything like love had run clear away, like water down a plughole, she felt nothing at all. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
  • Fill the tube with water and bleed the water down using the high bleed on the gauge.
  • She tipped the dirty water down the drain.
  • Scientists have broken water down to its atomic material.
  • After painting this room, the decorators decided to tip their buckets of painty, murky water down a sink by the wall.
  • There is water downstairs but none upstairs in the house so they can't shower or use the toilet.
  • Channeling of water down the fin by troughs or rubber channels does not appear to improve thrust or economy.
  • In his anxiety not to miss anything, Stevie rubbered acrobatically with the result that he upset a glass of ice water down the waiter's neck, and three seconds later the tray-trotter had issued an Extra and was saying things in French that would sound scandalous if translated. You Should Worry Says John Henry
  • The county's advisory was a precaution to notify residents to avoid contact with the water downstream from the spill site, a statement said. Arlington lifts sewage advisory
  • These develop most commonly on gradients, where seepage of water down the slope through the surface soil is interrupted by barriers of rock, or of clay reaching or approaching the surface.
  • Thankfully someone had the bright idea to water down the dusty potholed road between Laborie and Piaye.
  • They added more than 20 riffle weirs, 15 post vanes, and 80,000 willows to slow water down, protect streambanks, increase habitat and raise the water table.
  • Use a pipette to make two or three long lines of water down the desk.
  • In the drizzling rain the gargoyles which jut out high up on the pillars vomit water down onto our heads.
  • They scurried around like ants when you pour water down an anthill, with no awareness of the world around them, as if the earth began and ended with high school.
  • You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long.
  • He splashed some on his face and handed the container to Quinn, who also greedily guzzled the water down.
  • The move implies he is open to compromise in the area, and will be seized upon by publicans and hoteliers, anxious to water down his proposals.
  • In terms of modern PC attitudes toward war and national solidarity, it's a big bucket of cold water down the pants of the timorous, and it reminds you how unapologetic popular patriotism used to be.
  • She poured the bucket of dirty water down the drain.
  • After a big rain, a rush of water down nude valley hills scours away the top-soil.
  • You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long.
  • She stopped, staring, as several score thoughts and fears, feelings and emotions kicked her in the tail, clenching her gut and sending a sluice of cold water down her spine.
  • Roman voters didn't want to enfranchise the Italians either, because it would water down their own votes.
  • If he had requested, prior to the ingress of water, that Richmond check the rainwater downpipes and outlets, one might have expected him to have mentioned that in this letter.
  • The fish have been shoaled in the shallower, faster, water downstream of the numerous weirs that bear testament to the river's industrial heritage.
  • You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long.
  • Following a dam failure in August, the Indus River essentially split in two, sending some water downstream on the Indus, and some water over vast stretches of agricultural land west of the river.
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  • She empties the water down the tree, and it comes slish-sloshing down. The Magic Faraway Tree
  • I admit that even among amateurs this is rather small talk, but it brings me to this point: in the passage of water down a ravine of its own making, this line of Nature astir may repeat itself again and again but is commonly too inaffable, abrupt, angular, to suggest the ogee. The Amateur Garden
  • Huge pipes funnel the water down the mountainside.
  • The source of the dampness penetration can be - and must be - eradicated and quite clearly this will require simply replacing the defective rainwater downpipes.
  • In a 1992 guide she wrote for the national MSA about how to establish a 'daw'ah' table to attract non-Muslims to the faith, she talks about the danger of succumbing to Western pressure to 'water down' Islam to make it fit a Western perspective. Bloggers.Pakistan
  • Rain began to drip down from the sky, slowly getting heavier until the sky was pouring sheets of water down upon the participants.
  • Instead of tiring with the increasing pressure of the task at hand, my Lady thrived, though I was careful to bear the brunt of any physical labor—heating kettles in the kitchen and carrying the water down the stairs, lifting patients, cleaning and sterilizing the lavement machine. The Mistress of Nothing
  • In the negotiations, they agreed to water down their original stiff demand to one acceptable to both sides.
  • They also say changing the system will allow unscrupulous bartenders to water down drinks.
  • All that whitewater is headed for shore on top of comparatively calm water down below.
  • I took a drink but she wasn't as careful as she thought and spilled some water down my chest.

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