Sentence examples for encountered water from inspiring English sources

The well encountered water and will be plugged and abandoned.

For "Transfiguration" (2007) and "Three Women" (2008), two pieces in the exhibition, he directed the participants to walk 20 feet forward in darkness — and not to stop when they encountered water — toward a light and then turn back again.

If, on the other hand, the flies had just spent six hours in a vial with nothing but dry paper lining the bottom, many of them would choose the damp, humid tube, even if they had never before encountered water in their lives (except for the moisture in their molasses, or the odd drop on the wall of their vial).

Female mice spent five times as much time in a place where they had encountered a dish with male urine than at a place where they encountered water.

As I headed to the Oracle Marketing Cloud event at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, I encountered water running down subway-station walls and leapt street-corner puddles with a single bound (or two).

On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.

Microcystins are the most commonly encountered water-borne cyanotoxins which present short- and long-term risks to human health.

If it encounters water as it descends, a steam explosion could then scatter the molten uranium.

Cold stress syndrome can occur when the animals encounter water below 68 degrees Fahrenheit for a prolonged period.

They are formed when heat from the caldera encounters water in permeable rock and pressure builds, venting steam.

Essentially, waves break when they encounter water that is shallower than they are tall — a three-foot wave will not break in four feet of water, for instance.