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still water
noun
- a part of a stream that is level or where the level of inclination is so slight that no current is visible.
Word History and Origins
Origin of still water1
Example Sentences
Over the course of a week, he traveled from Oklahoma City to Tulsa and Stillwater, hanging out with oil workers and executives, embedding himself as much as he could, and reporting his impressions back to Bidegain and Debre.
Surface tension allows water striders, for instance, to skate along the top of still waters.
Surface tension allows for insects like water striders to skate along the top of still waters, for example.
Crawfish and fish, he notes, don’t naturally inhabit the small containers of still water where Ae.
Matt Damon takes the lead in this crime drama, Stillwater, written and directed by Spotlight filmmaker Tom McCarthy.
The gun-boats just above are the Princeton, the Champlain, the Still Water and the Erie.
Still water runs deep, they say; and a glacial cap may conceal subterranean fires.
They were now skirting the borders of the lake, and their bright dresses were reflected like painted shadows in the still water.
The steamer is anchored close up to the bank and not a sound comes from the still water.
One is the comparative absence of running or still water, except in the height of the rainy season, away from the large rivers.
The boat slid over a little belt of still water through a wilderness of tall reeds.
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