Freshwater

//ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)//

"Freshwater" in a Sentence (22 examples)

I believe this fish is a freshwater fish.

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China.

In South Bohemia, there is a calm and sunny landscape with plenty of lakes used for freshwater fish farming.

They are pumping freshwater from the river catchment.

In my opinion, this is a freshwater fish.

Salmon are born in freshwater streams, but live most of their lives in the ocean.

There are both freshwater and saltwater mussels.

Wetlands can have freshwater, salt water, or a mixture of both.

Over 68 percent of Earth's freshwater is locked up in ice and glaciers; and another 30 percent is in groundwater.

Drink some cool freshwater.

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The trout is a freshwater fish.

Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.

“Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]

2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.

Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]

Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.

The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.

Freshwaters are portrayed in many artforms, including books such as Kenneth Grahame's childrens'^([sic]) story Wind in the Willows.

Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater.

Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.

Actual field data of Cl distribution in soil after irrigation with TWW and freshwater were obtained in a field experiment in Israel (Feigin et al., 2005; Fine et al. 2007).

Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.

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