Body-of-water Definition

Body-of-water Sentence Examples

• There arc four narrow avenues connecting this remarkable body of water with the Pacific and the Japan Sea; that on the west, called Shirnonoseki Strait, has a width of 3000 yds., that on the south, known ai Hayarnoto Strait, is 8 m.

• The greater part of the James River Valley lies in the bed of the extinct Lake Dakota, which was once a very narrow body of water extending northward from about the latitude of the present town of Mitchell for a short distance into what is now North Dakota.

• The Minnesota river has its source in the north-east, and the Big Stone Lake, a body of water about 25 m.

• During the rainy season there is a considerable body of water in these channels, but owing partly to rapid evaporation and partly to the porous character of the soil the surface of the country dries rapidly.

• The body of water thus formed, Superior and Allouez bays, varies in width from to 14 m., and is 91 m.