Sentence examples for drift in water from inspiring English sources

This yields a loss of 120 metres (400 feet) from iceberg sides and bottom during 100 days of drift in water at 10 °C (50 °F)—a rate that corresponds quite well to survival times of icebergs in waters off the coast of Newfoundland as measured by the International Ice Patrol.

We drifted in water 8 to 18 inches deep, watching carefully for tails and other signs.

Often accessorized by staples of traditional Japanese culture, our heroine eats numerous desserts, cuddles with cats, endures various indignities and drifts in water among what may be icebergs.

"Here radioisotopes are drifting in water and air, and not necessarily producing an external whole-body exposure and are being taken up in very small doses into the body," he said.

From Shirin Neshat's film image of a Moslem woman pouring water over her face in a ritual of solace and purification to Bill Viola's video triptych of a woman giving birth on one screen, his mother dying on the other and a figure drifting in water in-between, a sense of the sacred is alive and well in contemporary art.

The action of drifting in water or wind, via trial and error, belongs in the past.

In addition, real drifting in water will always generate a strong signal via the lateral line sensors which may be critical to trigger compensatory body movements.

If you're not in the mood, just let your hand drift in the water and splash yourself when you get hot.

Alongslope aligned erosive features and contourite drifts developed in water depths between 1000 and 1500 m on the present seafloor.

All but 11 of those on board died from thirst and hunger after their vessel was left to drift in open waters for 16 days.

A set of systematic computations with varying water depths and drift angles are then carried out to study the viscous flow around the model drifting in shallow water.