Sentence examples for it was water from inspiring English sources
Although the children remain irresistibly drawn to them ("it was water, so we fished"), their darkness means they also become a repository for nightmares.
And it was water, or rather its absence, that obliged eighth-century Islam to go out and trade and conquer.
After a while, the bushes thinned out and I could see the soft star-lit glimmer of Lake Malawi spread before us like a wide swath of grey silk, so still you'd never have guessed it was water, apart from a faint ripple that wrinkled its surface when the breeze stirred.
It was water based, luckily.
"I thought it was water".
I wasn't sure whether it was water.
It was water off a laminated Nazi's back.
One reader recently complained that her luggage was not waterproof, even though the manufacturer had claimed only that it was water-resistant.
The castle was surrounded by a moat, between 15 feet and 25 feet across, although it is uncertain as to whether this was originally a dry moat, as it is in the 21st century, or whether it was water-filled from the pond and nearby stream.
The viscosity of the pooled contaminated challenge fluid also represented a worst case scenario as it was water-like and lower than proteinaceous sputum.
