Sentence examples for muddy ponds from inspiring English sources

Displaced persons without enough food to eat were drinking water taken from muddy ponds -- mud really.

Children pushing wheelbarrows piled with colored plastic containers of different shapes and sizes now collect water from muddy ponds, canals or the polluted tributaries of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

As the sun relents towards evening, along country roads women and children trudge home, balancing on their heads cans of water drawn from muddy ponds, even they fast disappearing.Every few years this scene repeats itself in the semi-arido, the dry lands at the heart of the north-east.

Over those weeks, the 18,000 recruits who make it through basic training – about 2,500 of them women – will struggle through runs wearing packs and boots, through biceps-burning obstacle courses that include shimmying across cables high above muddy ponds, and through specialized martial arts training in which they are likely to get punched or thrown once or twice.

Since grade school, I've dreamed of swimming, but in the landlocked South Carolina town where I grew up, brown-skinned children were barred from public pools, and my morbid fear of snakes kept me out of the muddy ponds and creeks that provided the only alternative.

Her eyes were dark brown with spots of gold, like stars drowning in a muddy pond.

At night there are bats and the sound of peepers and bullfrogs from the muddy pond.

He felt, he writes in "Charlie Chan," "like a bottom-feeding fish, one that cannot see the light of day in the muddy pond of America".

Occupying a small clearing, "Suspended Bow" is a 300-foot leafy chain woven from mugwort, goldenrod and reeds that hangs between two trees to form a catenary curve over a muddy pond.

Shortly before arriving at this miracle spa he abandons the vehicle and is whisked away by fellow con men, leaving them to straggle toward what turns out to be a muddy pond at the bottom of a quarry.

Since he seems to offer the only alternative to a life spent convalescing with her parents, she agrees to the marriage and, after being baptized in a muddy pond, is introduced as Ward's "helpmeet" to her new congregation.