conflux

Example Sentences

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An army of 6,000 construction workers is hard at work at a large site overlooking the conflux of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in the south-western Chinese megacity of Chongqing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2018

Despite war and dereliction, Afghanistan remains a vibrant conflux of ethnic identities.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2011

The squatter camps of Diepsloot may be an unsightly conflux of scabrous shacks, but to the east, on the other side of a busy avenue, lie the rolling hills of the open veldt.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2011

This august conflux had for its focus the modest official residence of Premier Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

After travelling twelve miles, we arrived at Easton, a small town with a population of 2,000 inhabitants, the capital of Northampton county, situated at the conflux of the Delaware and the Lehigh.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp