The submersion of the road made it hard for us to cross it.    From LearnThat.org. 

But we had suffered considerably through submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

In general, submersion of 1-3 days retards development.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

She's never seen a cat's reaction to sudden submersion I guess.    From Wordnik.com.  [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference

I could not learn that he rose at all after the first submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

Total submersion may cause greater damage than partial submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

The paper was immediately destroyed by submersion and concrete remained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

The figure below gives some figures for the effect of submersion on yield.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

Now, how might the passage of time and submersion in water affect evidence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2009] Reference

In project planning, one may use the following permissible submersion times.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

Maximum loss may be as high as 20 per cent following a three-day submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

While all belonging to the Elba considered that the submersion of a cable between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

A depth of about three yards and a half did not give them a very great submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference

Cereals are particularly sensitive to submersion during flowering and grain formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

Grassland may withstand submersion times of 1-2 months prior to the vegetative period.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

September to November: submersion by the flood waters: booting, heading and flowering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

During the vegetative period, submersion for 15 days may reduce yield by 30-50 per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

It's got a thick rubber seal, but it wasn't designed to take the pressure of submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace] Reference

Fig.C. 4: Effects of submersion on yields (maximum loss in percentage of the optimum harvest).    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

An additional 2,725 children are treated annually in emergency rooms for pool submersion injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill could make pools and spas safer] Reference

Another remarkable fact is, that the water does not efface the name, even after months of submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader] Reference

Inserting an arm or leg into the opening can result in powerful suction and total body submersion/drowning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rise in child drownings prompts new warnings on pool safety] Reference

Fruit trees are highly sensitive to submersion although the results vary considerably depending on the species.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

· Temperatures below 0° C and above 40° C also prevent fungal growth, as well as complete submersion in water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Now, more than halfway through his week-long submersion, his hands are looking like something out of a monster movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 4, 2006] Reference

The critical rainfall is the rainfall for a time q corresponding to the permissible submersion time for a recurrent time T.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Open ditches] Reference

She was a woman of about sixty, with strong facial bones and an air of first-class stoicism in the face of titanic submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knockdown]

They were all busily engaged on him like watermen applying the Royal Humane Society's regulations to a case of long submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference

The grain being that kind which requires submersion, the process of sowing and reaping is determined with precision by the seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

He had been down once, and submersion in the ice water had nearly deprived him of both consciousness and power to help save himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

But when you've had submersion for this long a period of time, I would -- I would anticipate that many of these are not salvageable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2005] Reference

An additional 2,725 children are treated annually in emergency rooms for pool submersion injuries, most occurring in residential pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make sure your pool is child-safe this summer] Reference

But this concern about the submersion of a dominant white culture in America spiked prematurely in 2008 with the political rise of Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Bunch: It's Not About the Mosque! It's America's War on 'the Other'] Reference

Hegemony results in the empowerment of certain cultural beliefs, values, and practices to the submersion and partial exclusion of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegemony] Reference

The earliest literary notices of baptism are far from conclusive in favour of submersion, and are often to be regarded as merely rhetorical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Total submersion can only be applied in the case of absolutely level lands, and is practised to an enormous extent in Piedmont and Lombardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Instead of a plunging down into there is a coming down upon, exactly reversing the order with which we are familiar, but with the same result -- submersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

A victualling sloop, which had gone with other vessels to the rescue, was drawn into the vortex of a whirlpool caused by the sudden submersion of the "Royal George.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference