- present tense form of follow (3rd person singular).
follows
Example Sentences
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The Duwamish River once meandered through a tidal wonderland of wetlands, sloughs, side channels and oxbows — some 5,300 acres of habitat for wildlife, including salmon, birds and a banquet of insect and invertebrate life.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2022
TC Palm newspapers reported that the Kissimmee River’s restored floodplains and oxbows will help clean water laden with nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff, which has fed harmful algal blooms, plaguing the lake for decades.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021
Every day on this five-night journey in June—paddling in a flotilla of two-person canoes on an 83-mile river safari—we saw hippos wallowing in the oxbows of water formed by the Okavango’s annual flood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 30, 2015
The fish are a mix of juveniles and adults spread throughout ponds, oxbows and main river channels along the Rewa and Rupununi Rivers.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2013
Then some one—said to have been F. W. Graves of Vermont—bethought himself of making snowshoes out of the oxbows and the hides of the slaughtered oxen.
From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Hough, Emerson
