rivers
Example Sentences
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The air was fragranced by the late autumn scent of cornfields full of veggies ready for harvest, rivers swollen with sweet water, and gentle cedar from the nearby trees.
From Literature
Rivers of guilt slide down my cheeks and I dry them on my shoulder.
From Literature
The directors take a visual essay approach, contrasting Walden Pond and its woods and the rivers Thoreau rowed with sped-up footage of our crazy modern world — which can be a little on the nose.
From Los Angeles Times
Habitat destruction, overfishing and water pollution from the Amazon to the Danube threaten the very survival of hundreds of species whose epic voyages along the world's great rivers go largely unnoticed.
From Barron's
Rivers also carry plastic particles from land into the sea.
From Science Daily
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