watery

Example Sentences

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On the outside, she was pretty enough—blond hair, watery blue eyes, upturned nose—but if a smile can make an ordinary person beautiful, a scowl can make a beautiful person ugly.

From Literature

Somewhere in the expanse beneath that placid splendor lay Togbe’s childhood home in its watery grave, lost in time.

From Literature

Especially when Mr. Taborn’s chords spill into watery tremolos, all this coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal

He will rest until the end of time in the watery grave that lies between the land we have left and the land we will soon know.

From Literature

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