How to Use open water in a Sentence

open water

noun
  • Ready to get out on the open water?
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Seals hauled out on the edges of the open water.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Waves may reach 12 to 18 feet over open waters.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The lake plunge took place in open water where there is usually ice.
    — Cbscolorado.com Staff, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Without sea ice, the bears are forced to hunt in open water, and the seals can outswim them.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And third, the wind needs to travel over open water for a distance.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The leg would take twelve hours over open water—a brutal endurance test.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • Mute swans go where there's open water in the winter, Blakesley said.
    — Mikayla Price, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Stronger the current on the lake, the more likely the ice will give to open water.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Stronger the current on the lake, the more likely the ice will give to open water.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • When there was ice, the hunting was done by dogsled; when there was open water, it was done by kayak.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • And the stronger the current on the lake, the more likely the ice will give to open water.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Two days later, a light plane landed on ice and broke through into open water.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
  • An early freeze had trapped them in an icebound lagoon four miles short of open water.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The river swim will also be her second open water race.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Shark cages are not permitted for swimmers in the open water.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 July 2025
  • Some places where open water had frozen into a long, flat surface made for easy going.
    — David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The two focused on the open water, stripping streamers near the edges.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2025
  • While there’s plenty of open water for boaters, portions of the west end are buoyed off as a no-wake zone.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
  • The sleek loft is decked out with a black-and-white palette and opens to a terrace with open water and city views.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The triathlon and open water swimming Olympic events are due to take place in the Seine.
    — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 25 July 2024
  • Adults can be at risk in lakes or open water when impaired, swimming alone, or unaware of how to swim.
    — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • But Burke overrode the order and sent the ship back out into open waters.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In front of them is open water and the island of Molokai rising in the distance.
    — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • These baits also work in open water and around isolated cover like docks and stumps.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Bald eagles nest in a variety of habitats close to open water.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • That left it facing open water, so all the deputy had to do was push the fish into deeper water.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
  • While kids are more likely to drown in bathtubs and home pools, adults are more likely to drown in open water or rivers.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In addition to the triathlon, the Seine is set to host open water swimming events.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
  • Those are caused when the atmosphere picks up moisture from open water and then dumps it back on land in the form of snow.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025

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