Sentence examples for water parting from inspiring English sources
noun
A summit from whose opposite sides rainwater flows into different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide; a watershed.
A watershed is, by Webster's definition, an aspect of physical geography: an area bounded by water parting and draining down a particular course.
Rather than crashing into us, they flew around us, like water parting around a rock in a stream, and the sound of their wings beating was like a roar of moving air that was almost on the edge of hearing.
Online, the waters are parting too.
— Here it is, the dead of winter, and it is hard to turn on the television — particularly NBC — without catching a glimpse of Michael Phelps swimming through the streets in a sandwich commercial, or parting water in a pool for an Olympics promo.
And Scott's dazzling rendering of assorted plagues and parting waters doesn't quite deny the participation of nature, however synthetically they've been brought to screen.
He sliced through the crowd like Moses parting the water.
A fish slid along beneath his eyes and he heard the rush of its body parting the water.
Now there's an audacious plan to resurrect the complex by parting the waters with a 20-metre wall.
"I'm parting the waters of this energy crisis with the weight of the government behind me".
"It's the opposite of parting the waters — making this a transparency between these massive dam walls," Mr. Ohlhausen said.
And then - whoosh - up it came, parting the waters, and the two men were out there in middle of the ocean riding the waves.
