Sentence examples for dead waters from inspiring English sources

Aigues Mortes translates as "dead waters" – this place is anything but.

Never mind that the wee hatchling that races on the beach and then swims through the roiling, churning or sometimes spookily dead waters as an older animal may not be the same one that swims by a fast-moving vortex of silvery fish or makes sweet turtle love.

Sad were my thoughts that anchor'd silentlyOf the dead waters of that passionless seaUnstirr'd by any touch of living breath:Silence hung over it, and drowsy Death,Like a gorged seabird, slept with folded wingsOn crowded carcasses sad passive thingsThomas HoodOF ALL the blights afflicting the sea, carbon dioxide is just one.

A more engaging, because more imaginative, experiment, elaborately developed over many pages, is an ironic inversion of "picturesque Austria" that makes up the book's central image: a man-made lake on whose dead waters, thick with malignant algae, no ducks will alight, where children instinctively fear to swim, and where, almost fittingly, two strolling men find the corpse of a murdered girl.

I have tried to determine whether there is anything insidious in Syfy turning "Ascension," originally described as a six-part miniseries, into a "three-night event" and setting it afloat in the relatively dead waters of mid-December.

"Probably everyone thought we were dead," Waters said.

His bottled water is alive, he says, while bottled water in America is "dead water".

"The water in the river is dirty; it's dead water".

Was the dead water rat on the path an accident or a tribute to Damien Hirst?

The original said King Juan Carlos had been pictured with two dead water buffaloes.

Sometimes, a ship may cause internal waves (dead water) if there is a shallow, brackish upper layer.