Examples of riverbed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web From 2,500 feet in the air, the dirt airstrip is just a crack in a seemingly endless ocean of rainforest, surrounded by muddy mining pits that bleed toxic chemicals into a riverbed. — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Water is so scarce in some areas that people can walk across the riverbed. — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2022 The 38-mile, nontechnical hike follows a riverbed deep into the canyon, delivering you to narrows where rock walls rise 200 feet. — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2022 This year's northern pike data has also shed more light on the need to reconfigure the riverbed at the old North Avenue dam site. — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022 The fire was reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. in the riverbed near Friars Road and Morena Boulevard, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials said. — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2022 Rowing clubs have hung up their oars, sun-seeking teenagers fresh out of school have set up beach umbrellas on the riverbed, and in Gualtieri, a town on the central Po, two ships that were sunk in 1944 emerged earlier this year as the water receded. — New York Times, 12 July 2022 The brand new all-inclusive resort has the town’s longest lazy river, coming in at 1,148 feet and adorned with an art mural on the riverbed. — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 31 Mar. 2022 To receive the turf removal rebate, the sprinkler system was exchanged for a drip irrigation system, and a 650-gallon rain barrel, which runs to the permeable riverbed for groundwater capture, was added to the front of the house. — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022 See More

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