Examples of 'carried water' in a sentence

Meaning of "carried water"

The expression 'carried water' is often used figuratively to describe someone who fulfills a supporting or subordinate role, especially in assisting others with their tasks or responsibilities. It suggests the act of helping or serving in a supportive capacity

How to use "carried water" in a sentence

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Some people were carried water for drink.
It carried water a distance of fifty kilometers.
We discovered valleys that carried water into lake basins.
She carried water on her belt.
Since early times pottery has been the vessel that has carried water to the home.
The aqueduct carried water a distance of fifty kilometers.
The pools supplied water to an aqueduct that carried water to Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
They carried water in buckets.
The way I dug for vegetables and carried water.
These valleys carried water into lake basins.
Instead of bailing water, she carried water.
A conduit carried water to the monastery.
One example was Pennsylvania Mary Hays McCauley carried water to troops in battle.
The girls carried water to the fighters with jars.
I have been there for you, carried water for you.

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He carried water to the fields.
The image shows a channel that carried water and sediments into Jezero crater.
It carried water at a depth of.
The Nabateans built channels that carried water from this spring to the city of Petra.
These carried water brought to the surface by liquefaction during the earthquake.
And seeing these ice, maybe they carried water to earth too.
She carried water.
You will also see an aqueduct, which once carried water to the farmlands.
We carried water with us.
Women enrolled in self-defense classes and carried water guns filled with ammonia.
I carried water and Gatorade with me and drank regularly.
Once upon a time I carried water in Nalgene bottles.
I carried water and I helped carry some stretchers.
Then she went for water, and carried water inside until the tub was full.
Boys carried water and swept floors, tasks traditionally assigned to girls.
This was the plumbing system. They all carried water.
A channel along the top carried water from the countryside to the cities.
It was always so, and these Piolaine people had carried water to the river.
A system of aqueducts carried water to the ritual baths and irrigated the sacred crops.
And seeding all this ice, maybe comets carried water to Earth too.
Mud break aqueducts carried water tens of kilometres, many are still in use today.
Master, I rested my wounds for a month and carried water for a month too.
Some even carried water melons, a nod to one of the movie 's most memorable lines.
Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.
Sometimes I carried water from the well.
According to Maxwell, in the ancient world, no man ever carried water.
We carried water bottles in and used a stand-alone water cooler for many years.
He chopped wood, he carried water.
Masonry channels carried water from distant springs and reservoirs along a precise gradient, using gravity alone.
Another time, he carried water.
This tunnel, which carried water to Julia 's villa, is a masterpiece of precision engineering.
We also saw the Roman Aquaduct that carried water from outside 12 miles away.
It carried water to Nimes, about 20 miles away.
These dried-up brooks had carried water long ago, in very ancient times.
The aqueduct carried water to New York City Well, for over 100 years it did that.

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