tributary

Example Sentences

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Toxins entered a tributary feeding the Kafue, Zambia's longest river and a major source of drinking water.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

A wall currently separates the Nant Clydach tributary from the street, but the environment body, Natural Resources Wales, said building a raised flood defence wall was "not economically viable".

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

He also trained as a carpenter and, along with some friends, built his family home on a plot of land along Fish Creek, a tributary of the Snake River, in the shadow of the Tetons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

More than a mile long and 145m high, the dam is on the Blue Nile tributary in the northern Ethiopia highlands, from where 85% of the Nile's waters flow.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025

Meanwhile, Woods told me, the city began outstripping its water supply, a “somewhat wimpy” tributary called Canteen Creek.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann