Sentence examples for largely water from inspiring English sources

Because the brain is largely water, though, "for this application, water is the best stimulus," he said.

Their secretion is largely water (usually about 99 percent), with small amounts of dissolved salts and amino acids.

In fact, because most of what we eat is largely water, the internal wet-bulb temperature of the food never goes above the boiling point of water.

One problem with squash is that it's largely water, so my initial idea for a gratin prompted visions of a soggy mess.

Earth, after all, is largely water, so aerial dispersal is not a great idea unless you can cope with the presumably frequent fate of alighting on water.

More traditional Indian recipes simply add it fresh, simmering it down to a mush, but spinach being largely water, this leaves the dish too soggy for my taste.

Other analyses suggest the comet's surface is largely water-ice covered with a thin dust layer.

The geochemistry of the resultant leachates highlights the different geochemical reservoirs for extractable elements within the shale; notably, Na and Br were largely water-soluble, while Ba was extracted primarily from exchangeable sites, and Ca and Sr were found both in exchangeable sites and carbonate.

"Grape flesh, like human, is largely water-based.

There are many species of blenny, and they're largely water-bound – but the Pacific leaping blenny, Alticus arnoldorum, spends its life on rocks in the splash zones along the shores of Guam.

Past reform campaigns and costly fire and safety regulations have been largely watered down or ignored, however, critics say.