POND in a Sentence

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For POND, below is one of 71 sentences:
Beyond the corncribs, at the bottom of the shallow draw, was a muddy little pond, with rusty willow bushes growing about it.

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 Meanings and Examples of POND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pond
 n.  a small lake
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Once he found her mouth again, and they seemed to be by the pond together in the burning August sun.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The slanting sun playing upon this crimson pond in the sea, sent back its reflection into every face, so that they all glowed to each other like red men.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
3  Some of the subtlest secrets of the seas seemed divulged to us in this enchanted pond.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
4  Beyond the corncribs, at the bottom of the shallow draw, was a muddy little pond, with rusty willow bushes growing about it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
5  The road from the post-office came directly by our door, crossed the farmyard, and curved round this little pond, beyond which it began to climb the gentle swell of unbroken prairie to the west.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
6  We clambered up to the front seat and jolted off past the little pond and along the road that climbed to the big cornfield.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
7  The dog-town was a long way from any pond or creek.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
8  Beside a frozen pond something happened to the other sledge; Peter saw it plainly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
9  Beyond the pond, on the slope that climbed to the cornfield, there was, faintly marked in the grass, a great circle where the Indians used to ride.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  When I got to the pond, I could see that he was bringing in a little cedar tree across his pommel.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
11  I watched them go past the pond and over the hill by the drifted cornfield.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
12  Marek was cleaning out the stable, and Antonia and her mother were making garden, off across the pond in the draw-head.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
13  They did not take the path around the pond, but plunged through the muddy water, without even lifting their skirts.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
14  I lay awake and watched the moonlight shining over the barn and the stacks and the pond, and the windmill making its old dark shadow against the blue sky.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
15  It seemed, after all, so natural to be walking along a barbed-wire fence beside the sunset, toward a red pond, and to see my shadow moving along at my right, over the close-cropped grass.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
Example Sentence:
1  The ball rolled onto the frozen surface of the pond.
2  The wind made little waves on the pond.
3  There is a small pond in his yard.
4  Several large fish live in the pond.
5  There was green scum over the pond.
6  The green covering on top of the water in the pond is algae.
7  Wild flowers and grasses rimmed the little pond.
8  The pond is in the middle of a wood.
9  A breeze rippled the surface of the pond.
10  They call this pond a lake by courtesy only.
11  You could see the glimmer from the pond in the front yard and hear the gentle roll of the water from the small creek.
12  If the trespasser is a child, you face a greater risk of liability, especially if the child was drawn to your property by an attractive nuisance, such as a pond.
13  I would jog around the ponds, and around them, again and again.
14  Mosquitoes commonly breed in ponds of stagnant water.