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Sentence Examples In severe drought years some reaches of the riverbed dried up completely, resulting in lasting habitat damage. Rescuers found 80 bodies trapped in the hull when they salvaged the boat from the riverbed. Whether it is a streak of water flowing down a dry riverbed or a cast shadow disrupting the almost monochrome field is unclear. The dagger spun away in a glitter of moonlight on metal to clatter on riverbed rock. Hualien police said they found two unclothed female corpses on a riverbed yesterday. Once they receive word that the river has dried, they head out to the riverbed and scoop minnows out of isolated pools. His boots tell the tale of countless treks up and down the sunbaked gravel and silt of the Gila's riverbed. I perch in the middle of the bench seat in the back, my knees knocking into everyone as the road turns from deep ruts into ravaged riverbed. Come July and August, with crops drinking thirstily from the canal, the riverbed below the diversion often dried up completely. He hauled himself back aboard and pulled the javelin out of the riverbed, allowing the vessel to float free again. Local people cultivate tapioca, rice and vegetables on the heavily silted riverbed. The grave generally is located in a riverbed or somewhere deep in the forest. I sortie out to the riverbed and the sentries, who stand like dull rods in the wind. They can be seen from the road, but it is best to take the bush walk to the riverbed to appreciate them fully. For the adventurous, the slope steepens at the end of the wall, descending to 40m or more and the bottom of the old riverbed. Leaving their overnight camp by the riverbed, they turn their sure-footed local steeds toward the steep, rocky outline of the Spur. The roof gives one the sensation of sitting in a dry riverbed or mountain scree slope, particularly because it lacks containing barriers. He had to keep his eye on tankers, cargo vessels and little sampans while keeping in mind he had just four meters of water, about 13 feet, between ship bottom and riverbed. A narrow riverbed that can be crossed easily in the summer, when it is dry, delineates this area of the borderline. Concrete piers are placed at interval points slightly upstream from the bridge into the riverbed to anchor the floating structure. Show More Sentences However, when Wangai and his friends are thirsty, they drink from the nearby riverbed. It's peaceful in the riverbed, except for the occasional roar of a motorcycle or an off-road four-wheeler. There was a dry riverbed, partly trenched, representing a river, which curved around the village forming its north and east boundaries. During construction of the Nemiscau-1 instream flow release structure, the Nemiscau will flow down the natural riverbed. In many large river systems riverbed degradation can also significantly lead to severe ecological impairment. Construction of the dam in the riverbed will require setting up a cofferdam upstream of the dam. Sean stepped on a shard of glass that was sticking up from the riverbed. Other possible projects are broadening and deepening of the riverbed, constructing channels parallel to the main river and removing obstacles. In addition to that, high quantities of bedload can result in riverbed aggradation blocking the channel and, hence, cause flooding. There will be a minor excavation of the riverbed immediately downstream of the sluiceway to accommodate the turbine. The Missouri riverbed is covered with a thick layer of glacial drift to the north and east. Currency is a current, but corporate beavers are putting rocks in the riverbed stream of our economy. Wangai's family have no latrine and use the riverbed in the early morning before it is light. Also, as more water flows, parts of the riverbed break away. And within it is La Pause, a green oasis set beside a riverbed, in startling contrast to the arid land surrounding it. Then, once it is in place, it is partly flooded and allowed to sink to the riverbed around the breach, making a tight seal. Because shadows on the riverbed can disrupt underwater ecology, the gangways and above-surface portions of the pool wall may be made of Plexiglas. In the riverbed were about a dozen or so articles, mostly fairly expensive power tools, and several toolboxes, all presumably stolen a short while earlier. Corrupt authorities also gave permits for shoddy housing and other construction in the riverbed, enriching individual contractors at the expense of public safety. The riverbed or natural course of a continuous or noncontinuous flow is the land covered by water under maximum normal rises in level. Show More Sentences The water has got shallower, so inflatables sometimes burst on sharp rocks poking up from the riverbed. This would let marine robots anchor themselves to the sea floor or a riverbed if they needed to stay put somewhere. They may also take a bit of mud from a riverbank or riverbed or from a watering hole. It is like the dry husks of seeds or the even drier riverbed. I know that my father and mother's poles are planted in the riverbed, along with those of many of our ancestors. Eggs are laid on the riverbed in fall, incubate in winter and hatch in May. In addition, the debris in the riverbed diverted the flow towards the south bank causing considerable erosion. He knelt down near the riverbed and put water over his face. A little later he devised a riverboat which could propel itself against a current by using 'legs' that reached the riverbed, as well as the more conventional paddles. As a result, longboats which could once take up to eight tourists were being forced to take only 4-5 passengers to prevent the boats scraping against the riverbed. A team of volunteer divers will be part of the clean-up by removing waste from the riverbed. The change in the river's profile for a 4-km stretch on either side of the main riverbed left a chain of 14 ponds in what had been branches of the river. The composition of the riverbed at Rotherhithe was often little more than waterlogged sediment and loose gravel. The Spanish side tower rests on an artificial island built on the riverbed, while the pillar on the Portuguese side is on land. Where a clearly defined riverbed once zigzagged under the elevated train, now all that can be seen is a vast waterscape of churning, fast-flowing brown currents dotted with debris. Nomadic herders will walk for weeks to find a water hole or riverbed. Thousands of spectators watched as thirty tons of dynamite were detonated causing the last coffer dam to flood the riverbed and Lake St. Lawrence. The riverbed has become a de-facto recreation area. It is flat, strewn with rounded pebbles and appears to be a dry riverbed. On Earth, or even on Mars, drainage channels and rounded pebbles would be taken as evidence for the erosive effects of liquid water. Miss Wooldridge exchanges her riverbed extravaganza for a deep purple hunting dress with a stovepipe black topper, to ensure she retains the whip hand. Show More Sentences Living organisms are adapted to their environment, and their occurrence in the St. Lawrence, whether on the floodplain or the riverbed, is neither random nor fortuitous. Structure built across a riverbed to hold back water and, in a hydroelectric development, to provide the falling water that drives the power station turbines. This is due to the fact that the riverbed will continue to build up with sediment, chocking the waterway and greatly reducing its capacity to evacuate large volumes of water during rain events. After that, you'll propel yourself from the edge of the 80 foot cliff and fly across the Gorge on the zipline and then rappel from mid-air down to the riverbed. They might build one bomb and test it in a riverbed a few miles away. In order to construct the stone piers that the bridge rested upon, massive Coffer Dams were built to dam portions of the St. Lawrence River so that labourers could work directly on the riverbed. What is water if it has been removed from a riverbed or a basin? We were told by some of the witnesses that there is even natural pollution occurring because the oil sands come right to the surface in the riverbed itself. The project involves the removal of the debris of the bridges, the removal of any unexploded ordnance, and the restoration of the riverbed in that area. Fuel leakage from the filler and fuel tank vent after the occurrence could not be determined because of the nature of the riverbed surface and the presence of fuel spilled from the drums. The Council was concerned at the risk of flooding posed by the continued blockage of the riverbed and at the serious environmental and humanitarian consequences this could entail for certain riparian States. The Baltic Sea somewhat resembles a riverbed, with two tributaries, the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia. In the North Sea, it splits into two arms representing the ancient riverbed at the end of the last ice age. The deeply eroded old riverbed beyond the current shoreline, Hudson Canyon, is a rich fishing area. The former riverbed is clearly delineated beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, extending to the edge of the continental shelf. Brunel had planned the tunnel to pass no more than fourteen feet below the riverbed at its lowest point. During 2,000 years of levee construction, excessive sediment deposits have raised the riverbed several meters above the surrounding ground. These deposits elevate the riverbed which flows between natural levees in its lower reaches. In the 90-second clip, a green anaconda with a large bump in its body is shown writhing on a shallow riverbed. The easement is part of a program that will ultimately lead to permanent protection of all of Newhall Land's riverbed landholdings, company officials said. Examples from Classical Literature Near by was the smoke-blackened ruin of the farmhouse, fired by the Russians when they retreated from the riverbed. I now discovered the source of the beautiful pebbles which had so pleased me in the riverbed. They'd let him down by a rope to find things on the bottom of the riverbed. A blind camel blundered towards the edge, slipped, and crashed down into the riverbed, and as he had 200 lbs. By the time he was ready to fire, the Indian was galloping down the riverbed and had disappeared around a bend. The silt dredged from the riverbed will be used to fill in dry docks at Tyne Dock, creating 13 acres of development land for the Port of Tyne. We've got to work the gangs all night and clean up the riverbed. Fontsanta Park is a conglomeration of imaginative public spaces grafted on to the dried-up riverbed of the former Fontsanta River. In east Lebanon, floods swept through the Orontes River in Hermel, causing massive damage to cafes and aquacultures along the riverbed. As the river flows, this bottom sediment, called bedload, scrapes over the rocks like sandpaper over wood, slowly eroding the riverbed to carve the canyon. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with riverbed What is the plural of riverbed? What is the noun for riverbed? Translations for riverbed Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words river basin riverbanks river-bank river bank riverbank Rivera riverbeds riverbend riverboat riverboats riverdale riverfront 8-letter Words Starting With r ri riv rive river riverb riverbe