rivers
Example Sentences
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The weather alerts come two weeks after danger to life flood warnings were issued and homes and businesses in Monmouth and elsewhere hit after rivers burst their banks.
From BBC
Drew Brees and Philip Rivers, along with Larry Fitzgerald, Jason Witten and Frank Gore have reached the semifinal stage for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
From Los Angeles Times
“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.
Helen Wakeham, chair of the National Drought Group said "recent rain is very welcome, but it needs to be sustained over the next six months...to fill up our rivers, reservoirs and groundwater levels".
From BBC
It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would travel, and how they would be supplied and protected on the way.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
