watery

Example Sentences

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Symptoms include rash, fever, cough and red, watery eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Nutrients must travel through cells, proteins need to fold correctly, and molecules constantly diffuse through watery environments.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

When Mr. Haskell turns his lens on seagrass flowers, we glimpse organisms marvelously adapted to their watery environment, petals miniaturized into “scalelike shields,” with fruit and seeds protected as if in a bathyscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

For brightness, add lemon zest — the aromatic lift without the watery slack.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

He had surely succeeded in crossing the river, but somewhere along the watery way his memory of a mouse named Abel had leached out.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig