Sentence examples for lakes instead of from inspiring English sources

Zhuangzi asks why he didn't think of making the gourd into a great tub so he could go floating around the rivers and lakes, instead of worrying because it was too big and unwieldy to dip into things!

However, both of these other fern families float freely on the surface of ponds or lakes instead of rooting in soil or mud.

Backpack a three-mile route to a lake instead of a 10-mile route up a peak.

The lake's proximity to the city means that most visitors take day trips to the lake instead of buying homes there.

And unlike its picturesque neighbours, Stassfurt now has a lake instead of its old city centre; the 15th-century church, town hall and 850 other buildings collapsed or were knocked down because of subsidence, caused by decades of mining to extract potash.From the death of cities, the hope is that new life will emerge.

Meixi Lake will be helmed by the same architects Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and Arup and follow a similar philosophy, but with a 400-acre lake instead of a park.

But when physicist Lydéric Bocquet's 7-year-old son asked him why a good throw makes a stone skip on a lake instead of sinking, Bocquet took the question as a challenge.

Had she gone, one relative said, they would have fished from the shore of the lake instead of from a boat.

The funk of the juggalo had choked the air of the venue that thanks to its gold ceilings and red carpets looked like it should have been hosting a performance of Swan Lake, instead of white rappers in clown makeup.

This year, why not ditch the beach for head for one of these breathtaking lakes instead.

Unlike standards for water use in other areas of the country, the Great Lakes standards would be guided by what's good for the lakes' ecosystem, instead of by local economic pressures or whoever managed to claim the water first.