How to Use aqueous in a Sentence

aqueous

adjective
  • Along a bare torso and down a thigh, the sun glints through ocean waters and bathes coral and fish in aqueous light.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • These traces often come in the form of deposits of aqueous minerals.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Its face of polished rock crystal bears tiny bubbles for aqueous intrigue.
    — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2024
  • It was also used in other products, like aqueous film forming foam used for fighting fires.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2023
  • One of the best weapons against it in recent years has been implants known as aqueous shunts or glaucoma drainage devices.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
  • On a recent visit, the sun filtered in aqueous light through the canopy and threw gold shafts between massive trunks.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 July 2021
  • Vinegar is an aqueous solution that contains acetic acid and water.
    — Anthony Martin, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014
  • Altman brushed sterile aqueous iodine over her face and hair, rendering her first rusty red and then yellow.
    — Slanierdarby, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The bangers hit harder, the down-tempo numbers get weirder and more aqueous; there’s a decent amount going on here.
    — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2026
  • So perhaps the idea is to keep your photos safe after an aqueous disaster caused by brain parasites.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2008
  • So does the show’s title painting, which is dominated by an aqueous blue wave that breaks on a tan expanse that can be seen as a beach.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The sense of pictorial space is at once deep, aqueous and nonliteral.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But the closest city in the entire world to that aqueous landmark is Tema, Ghana — where my mother grew up.
    — Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • For no sooner does our latter-day mermaid finish her aria of farewell than this aqueous dream world is dismantled before our eyes.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • Her original style was abstract and aqueous, suggesting the sea that laps three sides of her childhood homeland.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The compound was used in aqueous firefighting foam on the base for decades, until it was closed in 1993.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2020
  • Metals also oxidize in the aqueous environment of the brain, which can lead them to degrade over time.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The aqueous water solution can be neutralized and returned to the wastewater grid.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Water takes myriad forms, and so do Julio Valdez’s paintings and prints of aqueous surfaces and depths.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
  • Veiled by this aqueous spillage — textured by the rough grain of the silk-screening process — the meteorites in the paintings seem not entirely solid.
    — Zoë Hopkins, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The refractive index of those aqueous components is low, while the refractive index of the proteins and lipids is high.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Likewise, if the lacrimal gland, which produces the aqueous layer, isn't functioning properly, enough tears will not be made, and dry eyes will occur.
    — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
  • Kirill Vasin’s releases as Hoavi have tended toward the aqueous.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
  • After many iterations, the target rare earths are then typically transferred back to the aqueous phase.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
  • There's a thin layer of lipids (fat) on top, a thicker layer of aqueous (water and proteins) in the middle, and a layer of mucus on the bottom.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, Health.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Clouds appear luminescent and aqueous; smoke spreads across the page, ghostly and gaseous; water looks fluid and dynamic.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Just under your skin lie whole aqueous worlds, where trillions of cells spark and beat and wriggle and secrete, doing all the complicated tasks of keeping you alive.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 May 2022
  • There is no one in sight, but the surface of the water bursts with evidence of someone having just dived in, disappearing into the cool aqueous depths.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • Here, crystal-clear streams flow over granite bedrock colored like an artist's palette with Podostemaceae—aqueous flowers that bloom pink each summer and fall.
    — Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The aqueous action scenes — cascades of water swirling around aerial charges — should play out nicely on the big screen during the film’s theatrical release.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 1 May 2026

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