cold-water
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.
From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025
Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club at a lake.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025
Federal officials said the changes under the new rules include provisions aimed at managing cold-water reservoir releases from Shasta Dam to help endangered winter-run Chinook salmon survive.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024
Some are surfers, and there's a few cold-water swimmers and a sky diver.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024
Scruggs waits his turn while PFC Wright hikes his cold-water shower at Fire Support Base Nancy in Xuan Loc, Vietnam, 1969.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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