Examples of river in a Sentence

The raft is too small to use on this part of the river. Rivers of mud flowed down the hillside.

Recent Examples on the Web The water became contaminated in 2014-15 because water pulled from the river wasn't treated to reduce the corrosive effect on lead pipes. — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2022 Quinoñez drank water straight from the river and built an impressive wooden dock to aid his fishing. — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022 French officials had mobilized an ad hoc team of roughly 80 specialists, including wildlife experts, veterinarians and divers to rescue the whale from the river in what became an all-night operation from Tuesday to Wednesday. — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022 On Tuesday night, rescue efforts to remove the whale from the river began. — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022 Last year, things were so bad the city couldn’t pull water from the river at all. — Kathleen Ronayne, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022 The first phase scheduled to start in the Spring will include building a bridge over the White River and rebuilding the road from the river to about 12th Street. — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2022 While Alaskan families are prohibited from pulling one king salmon from the river, factory trawlers are dumping out metric tons of salmon, halibut, and crab as garbage. — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022 But in the 19th century what is now the Union Pacific Railway chose a rail route on the other side of the Kansas River, when ferries were the only way to cross the river. — Steve Grant, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2022 See More

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