Sentence examples for chiefly water from inspiring English sources

They are among more than 500,000 people in central and northern Mali who in the past 16 months have become dependent on aid – chiefly water pumped by the Red Cross – as a result of destruction caused by the advance of armed groups demanding secession for the north and the imposition of sharia law.

AQP1, AQP2, AQP4, AQP5 and AQP8 are chiefly water selective, while AQP3, AQP7, AQP9 and AQP10 transport glycerol in addition to water.

Another important decision reached at this time was that the getaway would be made chiefly over water, since Gravesend Bay lay handy, only a block and a half from the Rubel substation.

Because the agency is financed chiefly by water bills, it has been largely cushioned from the steep budget cuts ordered by Mr. Bloomberg to help the city close a multibillion-dollar deficit.

This decrease estimated in 1975 to be 20 percent of the 1950 level and still rising has come chiefly from water diversion for irrigation and through evaporation from the artificial reservoirs; and, as a result of it, the salinity of the Sea of Azov has risen considerably, diminishing the sea's biological productivity and lowering fish catches.

Most gums are used chiefly in water-remoistenable products.

Chimaeras take in water chiefly through the nostrils, keeping the mouth closed for the most part.

The usual habitat of ciconiiforms is near water, chiefly fresh, and only a few species, such as the white stork (Ciconia ciconia), live largely on dry ground.