subaqueous

Example Sentences

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Don’t be fooled by the name – his productions feel subaqueous yet abrasive, and relentlessly innovative.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2018

Sebald’s quiet, bashful, mysteriously subaqueous prose brings alive the paradoxical combination of drift and paralysis that has afflicted these lives.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

Ashley, G. M. Classification of large-scale subaqueous bedforms: a new look at an old problem-SEPM bedforms and bedding structures.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

With their subaqueous palette, these paintings seem to luxuriate in a kind of cosmic depression, the way we do in adolescence, when we’re living on caffeine, dreams and nerves.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2010

On they floundered despite their exhaustion; on along the subaqueous ridge, which at every step appeared to sink deeper into the water,—as if the nearer to the land the peninsula became all the more depressed.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne