1. As the stagnant water slopped back and forth their reflections mouthed sleepily, a hundred mouths.
2. Gao Ma knew that the lane beyond the southern wall dead-ended at a noodle mill alongside a ditch of putrid stagnant water.
3. Midway between sun and stagnant water he blazed in his glorious colors of putrefaction dark green, dark blue, black.
4. The tumbling waters fan out into a small and shallow lake of coated stagnant water.
5. They grow in running streams as well as in stagnant water of ponds, backwaters, and wells.
6. Any stagnant water in your backyard, even in a glass jar, can serve as a home to mosquito eggs.
7. As dead organisms rained down from the surface into this nearly stagnant water, the decay of all that material gradually sucked the oxygen out of it.
8. Bacteria and amoebas multiply rapidly in stagnant water, such as stock ponds or lake inlets.
9. Aedes aegypti is a mosquito that has evolved to live in proximity to humans and to breed almost exclusively in man-made containers capable of holding stagnant water.
10. But Murphey said that he is especially concerned because apparently neither child was swimming in stagnant water.