| 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. |
| Local people cultivate tapioca, rice and vegetables on the heavily silted riverbed. |
| Hualien police said they found two unclothed female corpses on a riverbed yesterday. |
| Rescuers found 80 bodies trapped in the hull when they salvaged the boat from the riverbed. |
| The roof gives one the sensation of sitting in a dry riverbed or mountain scree slope, particularly because it lacks containing barriers. |
| Come July and August, with crops drinking thirstily from the canal, the riverbed below the diversion often dried up completely. |
