watered

IPA: wˈɔtɝd

Examples of "watered" in Sentences

And the grass/weeds in our (vacant) uphill lot that never gets watered is about 1/2 green (That's my barometer for when the rain is here for good).
Then, in watered down form, Bush vaguely referenced the "deeper challenges" (of poverty and racism) that he mentioned in his famous Jackson Square speech.
But finding that compromise is growing more difficult by the day, candidates and advisers acknowledge, because liberals are resisting what they call a watered-down bill, while conservatives are winning by just saying no.
To help them "dedicate their lives to prayer", they spent prolonged periods of time in isolated hermitages, each of which had a prayer-room (oratorio), a small cell, and a fruit and flower garden, watered from a fountain.
That is all well and good, but how many times have we seen terrific craft brews gobbled up by big brewers only to see the distinctive flavors disappear, resulting in watered down beers that are mere shadows of their former selves?
But the notion at its core, that rock-and-roll already existed, but needed white performers to inoculate its potential audience from the perceived social stigma of its origins, is a powerful enough narrative to have been refashioned in watered-down form ever since, whether in the form of blue-eyed soul or (most notoriously) in the case of Vanilla Ice, greeted as the purported Elvis of hip-hop.