How to Use water jump in a Sentence

water jump

noun
  • But just then the water jumped chest high, and the PFD slipped from his grasp.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 2018-06-20
  • He was passed by Bor right before the water jump on the second-to-last lap, then others in the field surged past him.
    Lori Riley, courant.com, 2021-06-25
  • The irony of the fall was Fahy and Michalski were stride-for-stride going over the final water jump.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2019-06-12
  • When the fast-moving water hits the low-speed pool below, the surface of the water jumps upward, forming a breaking wave that stays in place and marks the boundary between the two flows.
    Jason M. Forthofer, Scientific American, 2019-11-20
  • Clark won the Pac-12 steeplechase as both a freshman and sophomore before switching to longer races without barriers or water jumps last year.
    Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 2018-04-27
  • Indiana’s Daniel Michalski, a graduate transfer, led the steeplechase off the final water jump but fell coming out of the pit.
    David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 2019-06-07
  • The University of Oregon’s Jackson Mestler looked out of contention for the final until two guys in front of him crashed going over the final water jump.
    Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 2021-06-25
  • Cooper and Young cooked up an improvised course at Arizona Stadium in Tucson with bales of hay substituting for the barriers used in the race’s water jumps.
    Frank O. Sotomayor, azcentral, 2019-08-17
  • Entrenched in a two-man showdown and prepared for a sprint to the finish line after nearly 10 laps, Indiana’s Daniel Michalski fell over the water jump on the final turn.
    Vytas Mazeika, The Mercury News, 2019-06-12
  • My dream toothbrush is coated in a nontoxic version of Rustoleum's Neverwet, the magically hydrophobic coating that makes water jump off surfaces.
    Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, 2017-11-13
  • The main jumping arena features natural obstacles such as ditches and a water jump as well as the famous 3.5-meter Wall -- a crowd favorite when the horses and riders descend it during the Derby classes.
    Aly Vance, CNN, 2018-05-10

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