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Examples
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He knew the differences between saltwater fish and lake-water fish and which types of fish swam in each.
No Strings Attached Karyn Grice 2010
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He knew the differences between saltwater fish and lake-water fish and which types of fish swam in each.
No Strings Attached Karyn Grice 2010
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I waved at a group on shore and they responded by calmly filling water guns with lake-water and shooting at me.
David Parker: Arizona's Sanctuary City: Lake Havasu Times 2010
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He knew the differences between saltwater fish and lake-water fish and which types of fish swam in each.
No Strings Attached Karyn Grice 2010
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And possibly the baby is crying in the truck, but he's safe enough, and she remembers that his diaper needs changing while she watches drops of rain fall silver through the night and feels them sting her cold lake-water face as she listens and waits and hopes the snakes have drowned.
Medusa Song 2009
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And possibly the baby is crying in the truck, but he's safe enough, and she remembers that his diaper needs changing while she watches drops of rain fall silver through the night and feels them sting her cold lake-water face as she listens and waits and hopes the snakes have drowned.
Medusa Song Mary Akers 2009
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In the European Arctic, combined evidence from oxygen isotope and pollen-inferred precipitation records, cladoceran-inferred lake levels, diatom-inferred lake-water ionic strength, and elemental flux records of erosion intensity into lakes, all suggest more oceanic conditions in the region during the early part of the Holocene than today, with a shift towards drier conditions between approximately 6,000 and 4,500 years BP [34].
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009
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Several general climate-related trends were deduced for the region: a decrease in the average annual temperature of approximately 2.5 to 4°C from the early Holocene to the present; summer temperatures during the early Holocene that were 1.7 to 2. 3°C above present-day measurements; winter temperatures that were 1 to 3°C warmer than at present during the early Holocene; and a decrease in lake-water pH since the early Holocene.
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009
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This warming of frozen soils probably accounts for recent increases in stream - and lake-water alkalinity.
Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic 2009
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I was as cool as lake-water, and, for the moment, no more ruffled.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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