Sentence examples for water halts from inspiring English sources

With their jagged crests, male great crested newts can look like miniature dragons in breeding season – even though they are only 15cm long – and this rare amphibian is the stuff of monstrous legend in the building trade, a legally protected beast whose presence in any puddle of water halts all grand designs.

The warm water halting could be explained by the merging of a warm water and a cold water river upstream.

Other proposed tar sands pipelines are dead in the water, halted by intense public pressure and unyielding local opposition.

Fenn never meant for his treasure hunt to be easy: His poem points searchers to somewhere beyond "where warm waters halt … in the canyon down … too far to walk … below the home of Brown".

Begin it where warm waters halt And take it in the canyon down, Not far, but too far to walk, Put in below the home of Brown.

"Begin it where warm waters halt, and take it in the canyon down," he said in a loud, low, dramatic voice, waving his hands toward the rocky canyon walls.

The exact contents of the treasure are unknown, but it's rumored to be full of valuables, including precious stones and gold coins that could be worth up to $5 million dollars today. "Begin it where warm waters halt … and take it in the canyon down … not far, but too far to walk … put in below the home of brown".

An argument over water has halted work at Tía María, a copper mine.

There, it is either heated in ovens or, if cured with the Bourbon process, dipped briefly in boiling water to halt its growth.

Simmer for 1 minute, and then immediately plunge the spears into a bowl of ice water to halt the cooking process.

By shocking the vegetables with ice water, you halt the cooking process and preserve the color of the vegetables.