Sentence examples for placid backwater from inspiring English sources

Far upstream we cut the engine and drift silently into a placid backwater.

This was a placid backwater of the Potomac River, the Pentagon Lagoon, with the boats of the Columbia Island Marina all locked in the icy armor of the polar vortex.

Yet, even this shy, placid backwater was once infiltrated by SWAPO from Namibia, Boer paramilitaries from South Africa, and the ubiquitous CIA making yet another mess.The eccentric cloak-and-dagger plot involves a black American psychiatrist who would save Africa from religion and a local populist firebrand who would rather save it from cattle.

(Later, she told her friend she had read every line he'd ever written: no mean achievement). Certainly, the valiant colonel's lost letters from the field of action — written with the "thrill of joy at last on finding myself in the position" where John Brown "only wished to be" — brought firsthand knowledge and fierce emotions into the placid backwater of Amherst.

Certainly, the valiant colonel's lost letters from the field of action — written with the "thrill of joy at last on finding myself in the position" where John Brown "only wished to be" — brought firsthand knowledge and fierce emotions into the placid backwater of Amherst.

Jay Holcomb, director emeritus for the International Bird Rescue, which has partnered with Exxon on the cleanup effort, said the river's rapid flow has made the area inhospitable to most waterfowl, sparing many that would normally be drawn to the river's placid backwaters.

But come the first Monday in October this placid little backwater a few miles from Orient Point looks like Coney Island.

By 1998 the fish had made it to the Illinois, a Mississippi tributary, thriving in its placid and muddy backwaters.

Poetry is still a kind of backwater.

Still, Loma Linda is no backwater.

NEW ORLEANS — "Backwater".