Sentence examples for catching water from inspiring English sources

For example, Los Angeles makes money catching water.

It's raining and the umpires are out, checking Nadal is concerned about the balls catching water when they land at the back of the court.

Beyond it, there was just 'swamps and water and snakes and critters', territory which Hiaasen and his friends used to explore in little boats, camping out, catching water moccasins.

Aquifers in the rock act as underwater reservoirs, catching water that drains through the soil, releasing small quantities gradually into springs.

The Hydramax is essentially a living, "smart" pier that acts as an ecological community space, housing its own gardens and fish farms, and actively catching water from fog and rain for storage in its upper truss.

Amy, I suggest, would make a eye-catching water feature.

"The semilunar valves work like a dream, catching the water as sails catch wind, closing fast and preventing any leakage.

Now his nets have been catching mostly water because the areas he shrimps have been closed.

Prospective jurors sat in basement rooms with buckets on the floor catching dripping water.

Jones's stroke rate was high, indicating he was spinning his wheels, not catching the water as efficiently with each arm pull as he had in the preliminaries, when he was clocked in an American-record 21.59 seconds.

People loved the old building despite its obvious inadequacies, said Bodinetz, to the point that they didn't notice the buckets catching rain water in the auditorium and had become fond of the gaffer tape which held together the bronze velvet cinema seats.