watery

Example Sentences

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Yogurt that was too sweet to begin with and has since gone watery, pooling at the bottom like regret.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

More than 600,000 cases of cholera or acute watery diarrhoea and nearly 7,600 deaths were reported to the WHO from 33 countries last year, though the true numbers will be higher.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Here beauty is celebrated with voluptuous rapture, setting the mood for “Oh, Yemanja,” a mythic, watery mother’s prayer from Tania León’s opera “Scourge of Hyacinths.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

"The watery layer on Titan is so thick, the pressure is so immense, that the physics of water changes. Water and ice behave in a different way than sea water here on Earth," Journaux said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 20, 2025

“Your eyes are a little watery, but nothing’s falling out of them.”

From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli