Sentence examples for fetching of water from inspiring English sources

It was common for neighbours to help out with the fetching of water and firewood as well as sharing their cooked food with the HIV-affected family.

That skill came in handy after the storm, when Midnight was a link in a one-dog, multiperson bucket brigade, fetching bottles of water across Washington Street to carry to people marooned in the Westbeth complex, an apartment block that had gone dry as a desert.

In 1996, AskJeeves.com appeared, an obliging valet who would fetch drinks of water and spare newbies from the blast.

The pigs are dying of dehydration, and Blake responds immediately by running to fetch pails of water and quite literally save Downtown's bacon.

In nearly half the households in rural Africa, statistics indicate, women and girls devote a half hour or more a day to fetching a bucket of water.

The patient struggled through his final days at home, getting up to see to his own needs until the day he finally collapsed while fetching a drink of water.

The women were also classified according to their use of agricultural chemicals, whether they kept domestic animals and the type of container they used for fetching and storage of water for household use.

He had been sent to fetch a supply of water.

(We finally got up and fetched a pitcher of water from a nearby waiters' stand).

From the village.' She had got up one night to fetch a glass of water.

His throat tiring from talking, Bennett stands up to fetch a glass of water, and stumbles slightly.