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How to use waterfall in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Waterfall means a flow of water over the edge of a cliff. Example: “A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.”

Examples of waterfall by meaning

nounA waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.

  • A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.

nounThe action of drinking from a vessel without touching it with the lips, considered more sanitary for a shared vessel.

  • Hey man, can I take a waterfall from your bottle?

verbTo fall like a waterfall.

  • Rain ran off the bill of his fielder's cap and waterfalled in front of his face.1994, Nora Roberts, Private Scandals, page 54
  • Zondra, whose dirty-blond hair waterfalled above her head from a colorful tie, gave a snorting, horsey kind of laugh.1999, Jane Yolen with Bruce Coville, Armageddon Summer, page 79
  • they turned into the drive of The Manor with its red-brick front and the wonderful cloak of Virginia creeper waterfalling down between the windows.2008, John Gardner, No Human Enemy, page 156

More sentences with waterfall

  • The band of explorers found a shelter behind the waterfall, which they rested at for three days.From the entry shelter
  • The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.From the entry awesome
  • I stood too close to the waterfall, and I got wet.From the entry get wet
  • Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.From the entry scatter
  • I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.From the entry huck
  • Wanting to cool off after a long hike, the women decided to stop and skinny dip under the waterfall.From the entry skinny dip
  • The blades chopped the waterfall of cooked corn paste, spitting hot debris up into Dusty's fur.2021 August 31, Christian McKay Heidicker, Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN. From the entry shink
  • We stopped to eat lunch by a beautiful river pool at the top of a towering waterfall.2010, Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, New York, N.Y.: Spiegel & Grau, published 2011, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry double dog dare
  • Fortunately, a waterfall thrums down the nearby mountains and forms a natural swimming pool at the entrance.2009, Sean Harvey, The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic, →ISBN, page 321. From the entry swimming pool
  • Hukou Waterfalls is the second largest waterfall in China, behind Huangguoshu in Guizhou Province.2000 March, Zhou Ping, “Blue Skies and Yellow Loess — Spring Festival in Northern Shaanxi”, in China Tourism, number 236, H.K. China…. From the entry Yichuan
  • It is known for the beauty of its peaks, waterfalls, bamboo groves and flowers.1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 127. From the entry Yentang
  • Waterfall skirts may be appropriate in spaces where the visual aesthetic must balance the extreme height of a space..2019, Stephanie Sickler, Soft Goods Guidebook for Interiors, page 120. From the entry waterfall skirt
  • Lochs, lochans and waterfalls can be frozen solid.2017 February 18, Kari Herbert, The Guardian. From the entry lochan
  • The waterfall is now a trickle, and the pool is choked with algae and drowned leaves and broken-off branches.2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 13, in The Garden of Evening Mists, New York: Weinstein Books, page 168. From the entry choke
  • One of the most dynamic features of Aria is a sweeping, all-embracing waterwall that creates a waterfall hush.2012, Time Out Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry waterwall
  • If the casting is poorly designed, waterfalling will result.2009, ASM International, Casting design and performance. From the entry waterfalling
  • I remember one couple that truly created their own storybook wedding by selecting a remote waterfall as their wedding location.2006, Tammy Ash Perkins, The best of Hawaiʻi wedding book: a guide to Maui, Lanaʻi, and Kauaʻi, page 112. From the entry storybook
  • If the film folds over on itself as a result of turbulent flow or "waterfalling," the effects can be particularly damaging.2003, George E. Totten, D. Scott MacKenzie, Handbook of Aluminum: Physical metallurgy and processes. From the entry waterfalling
  • The canyon ends abruptly on the east side of Roraima, and here a waterfall pours over an outcropping of crystal.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 542. From the entry end
  • A waterfalls pours over the skull snapping the boy's neck.1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 68. From the entry ejaculates
  • A heated, in-door pool flanked by sumptuous daybeds where dark-slated walls, fiber-optic mood lighting, underwater sound system, and soothing waterfall deliver serious chill.2017 October 19, Stephanie Orma, “Why This Chic Milan Hotel Is the Ultimate Design Lover's Escape”, in Forbes. From the entry chill
  • After meandering in a large arc, the small creek suddenly plunges downward and passes over a waterfall on its way to Lake Fontana.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
  • South of Toucheng, the resort town of JIAOSI is best known for its hot springs and the spectacular waterfalls just outside the city.2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 189. From the entry Jiaosi
  • Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains.2006, Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times. From the entry lush
  • The water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak’d, till at last debouching into an interior Lake of great size.1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon. From the entry debouch
  • His eyes burned black with the intensity of their gaze over the hidden ravine below; over the thin, white waterfall, spumescent, blown into mist.1993, Hjalmar Thesen, The Way Back: A Novel, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry spumescent
  • They are some of the finest old stumpified staring trees I ever saw, with a small waterfall, rocks of all shapes &c &c.1939, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, The letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. From the entry stumpify
  • The falukah plunged over a waterfall and was almost submerged, was caught again in a maelstrom and went twirling on in the blackness.1914 November 14, Arthur Train, [Robert Williams Wood], “The Man Who Rocked the Earth”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 187, number…. From the entry maelstrom
  • Only the memory of the waterfall, with its amazing fernery, like a hanging garden above the rocks of the gorge, was preserved in Mrs.1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part I, Chapter 8, page 117. From the entry fernery
  • It arises in species living in noisy environments, such as under waterfalls, and thus “may have evolved to solve the same environmental and sensory problem,” Anderson explains.2024 January 30, Elizabeth Pennisi, quoting Nigel Anderson, “When frogs can’t croak to get a mate, they dance”, in Science Magazine…. From the entry foot-flagging
  • First of all, Lara Croft doesn't die or seriously injure anything even though she spends the whole movie getting shot at and almost falling over waterfalls.2018 March 19, Eliza Thompson, “That Japanese Death Queen From Tomb Raider Was Real”, in www.cosmopolitan.com, archived from the original…. From the entry super-unbelievable
  • Once a sawmilling town that was a gateway to forests of mountain ash and waterfalls, it has also come to embrace tourist lurks, such as arts and crafts.2009 February 14, Patrick Carlyon, “Where the hell is everyone?”, in Herald Sun. From the entry sawmilling
  • Seeing some of Britain's most beautiful waterfalls, rivers and pools from the most absurd angles as you scramble your way either up or down a mountain river course.2007 September 28, “Gorge scrambling”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry scramble
  • It's like a waterfall of dirt—a dirtfall!—and you cover your head and take a breath, bending forward in hopes of creating an air pocket for yourself.2005, Nancy Holder, Keep Me in Mind, page 126. From the entry dirtfall
  • Full of towering peaks, mysterious caves, and gushing waterfalls--and closely associated with the quest for physical immortality--Penglai was the frequent subject of artistic fantasies, such as the painting seen here.n.d., “The Palaces and Gate Towers of Penglai”, in Smithsonian Institution, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2025. From the entry Penglai

Meaning of waterfall

  1. noun A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
  2. noun A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.
  3. noun A chart depicting the timing and duration of network requests.

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Questions about waterfall in a sentence

How do you use waterfall in a sentence?
Waterfall is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.”
What is a short sentence with waterfall?
“Lochs, lochans and waterfalls can be frozen solid.”
What does waterfall mean?
Waterfall means a flow of water over the edge of a cliff.

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