brown water

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noun

shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.

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How to use brown water in a sentence

I got down my outside stairs and sloshed through brown water to the garage side door.
Los Angeles Is Gone - Issue 90: Something Green|Kim Stanley Robinson|October 7, 2020|Nautilus
She shuddered with disgust as the rich brown water of the Nile came up to her breast, to her chin.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
But adventure was to be had in greater variety by dropping seaward with the bickering brown water.
Greyfriars Bobby|Eleanor Atkinson
The slim legs were delicately modelled and the big eyes were like pools of gold-brown water, fringed with rushes.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim|Frances Hodgson Burnett

Below is a waste of mud, through which meander a few inches of thick brown water.
Punch, Or the London Charivari Volume 107, November 17, 1894|Various
It seemed that the fish lay only a few inches under the surface of the brown water.
Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's|Laura Lee Hope