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adjective

aquatic

relating to or consisting of or being in water

In a sentence

Six example sentences with aquatic, each labelled with its topic.

  • Runoff from the new car park killed the aquatic insects that once carpeted the streambed every spring.

    Environment

  • After knee surgery she switched to aquatic training, jogging lengths of the pool where her joints felt weightless.

    Fitness

  • The park rents masks so visitors can float above an aquatic garden of sea grass and drifting jellyfish.

    Travel

  • Dragonflies spend most of their lives as aquatic larvae, hunting under the pond surface long before they ever fly.

    Science

  • The aquatic level slows every movement, so players learn to plan a route before the air meter starts flashing.

    Gaming

  • Monet's late canvases return to an aquatic subject, the lily pond, painted so close that the horizon disappears.

    Art

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