tributary

Example Sentences

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Toxins entered a tributary feeding the Kafue, Zambia's longest river and a major source of drinking water.

From Barron's

The Severn Estuary is home to huge numbers of sprats and salmon, and the twaite shad, a protected migrating species which spawns in the tributaries of the River Severn.

From BBC

It was a town on the White Volta, a major tributary of the Volta River, way up north.

From Literature

A wall currently separates the Nant Clydach tributary from the street, but the environment body, Natural Resources Wales, said building a raised flood defence wall was "not economically viable".

From BBC

The tributary of the Potomac River cutting across the land was called Tiber Creek after the river that flowed through the Eternal City.

From The Wall Street Journal