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
• 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
• 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
• These traces often come in the form of deposits of aqueous minerals.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Called aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF, this foam primarily has been used to put out oil fires such as those from cars or airplanes.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2022
• It was also used in other products, like aqueous film forming foam used for fighting fires.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2023
• The type of firefighting foam that has been used at airports for decades, called aqueous film-forming foam, was developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1960s for handling jet fuel fires.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• While the ship’s crew talked about deploying the aqueous film-forming foam fire suppression system on the pier as the blaze raged, the time to do so had passed, the investigation found.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
• Hydrologists know that the Amazon River, by far the largest aqueous artery on the planet, feeds one-fifth of all the freshwater that flows into the oceans, more than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined.
  — Daniel Glick, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 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 aqueous water solution can be neutralized and returned to the wastewater grid.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Altman brushed sterile aqueous iodine over her face and hair, rendering her first rusty red and then yellow.
  — Slanierdarby, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2020
• The sense of pictorial space is at once deep, aqueous and nonliteral.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Dryness may follow, and with no blood vessels of its own, the light-catching cornea relies on tears and the aqueous humour inside the eye for replenishment.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• So perhaps the idea is to keep your photos safe after an aqueous disaster caused by brain parasites.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2008
• Water vapor actually had the opposite effect, causing the air in the glass tube to warm quicker as aqueous vapor was added to the mix.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vinegar is an aqueous solution that contains acetic acid and water.
  — Anthony Martin, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014
• The rich blues and aqueous textures of the many watery scenes suggest an islander’s seaward outlook, while the fiery, liquid reds in other pictures evoke volcanoes.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• Clouds appear luminescent and aqueous; smoke spreads across the page, ghostly and gaseous; water looks fluid and dynamic.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• That base is strongly suspected as a source of PFCs, a family of chemicals found in aqueous film-forming foams that firefighters use to douse fuel fires.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
• The mission also should reveal secrets of the moon’s icy shell and aqueous interior, despite never touching down on its surface.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024