rivers
Example Sentences
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One of the UK's biggest oil refineries spilled pollution into local rivers and the Mersey Estuary on dozens of occasions in 2023 and 2024, documents shared exclusively with the BBC suggest.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Modern European and American eels undertake extraordinary migrations, traveling thousands of kilometers from freshwater rivers to reproduce in the Sargasso Sea.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Last year, the Legislature passed a law extending the board’s special regulatory powers over the two rivers until 2031, while the agency works on permanent regulations to protect river flows and fish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The country had previously moved to export surplus electricity to neighbouring India and Bangladesh, seeking to turn its glacier-fed rivers into a source of revenue.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The routes along those waterways led to others that followed rivers from the Southeast and connected with roads that turned southward toward the Valley of Mexico.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
