riverbank

Example Sentences

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Insp Neil Pryce said witnesses and items left on the riverbank indicated where the boy may have entered the water.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

On a tall, green riverbank between two highways in São Paulo, Brazil, a woman with round glasses and a big smile looks out at the water.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

He returned with a snippet of film documenting one of the most notorious cryptid sightings in history—a fleeting, jittery glimpse of a hairy figure crossing a riverbank.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

"It rained a lot, the riverbank collapsed even further, and civil defense called us to evacuate," Luiz Otavio Souza, a 35-year-old salesman who had to leave his home and whose nephew is missing, told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

She made a grasp for it but missed, and the boy stumbled and fell, splayed over the riverbank.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman