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Even if skies are clear overhead, rainfall upstream can funnel into dry riverbeds and create dangerous flows miles away.
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Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Dry riverbeds, or wadis, that once flowed into or out of the Nile provided land routes of trade, conquest and mining expeditions from the Nile River to the Red Sea.
—Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Florida's fossil record stretches back more than 50 million years, with shark teeth among the most common finds in beaches, creek beds and riverbeds.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Omar El Akkad writes that words only exist in hindsight; time washes over and around them like water down a riverbed.
—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
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Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Dry riverbeds, or wadis, that once flowed into or out of the Nile provided land routes of trade, conquest and mining expeditions from the Nile River to the Red Sea.
—Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Florida's fossil record stretches back more than 50 million years, with shark teeth among the most common finds in beaches, creek beds and riverbeds.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Omar El Akkad writes that words only exist in hindsight; time washes over and around them like water down a riverbed.
—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for riverbed
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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