"drink" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Many seabirds have glands near the eyes that allow them to drink seawater.
- In dry areas they have been known to survive by drinking seawater.
- Whales do not drink seawater but indirectly extract water from their food by metabolizing fat.
- Most of its need for water is met through food, although, in contrast to most other marine mammals, it also drinks seawater.
- A person should not try to drink seawater, because the dissolved salts will increase, rather than decrease, thirst.
- "You'd have to drink seawater, which has three times the sodium content of blood."
- Procellariiformes drink seawater, so they have to excrete excess salt.
- After his fresh water leaked away, Willis discovered that he could survive for months by drinking seawater alone.
- They were hungry and thirsty; some drank seawater or urine.
- If he drank seawater he would take in a quantity of dissolved salt.
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