How to Use riverbank in a Sentence

riverbank

noun

• Groups of neon green kayaks hang near the riverbanks.
  — Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
• But it’s built for the dirt, mud, and grime along the riverbank.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Huge packs have dug up hills and riverbanks and mowed down marshlands.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• The high-tide line showed on the riverbank like a shadow on a wall.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• Crews planned to use boats and have searchers walking along the riverbank.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• As the permafrost thaws and riverbanks erode, more tusks will emerge.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• Nineteen barges bound for nowhere were tied up along the swollen riverbank.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2019
• In some places, homes teetered on hillsides and riverbanks that had been washed away.
  — Jeff Amy, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024
• The riverbank across is still open and leafy, a throwback to what the town used to be.
  — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Jan. 2025
• The man was camping on the riverbank with a rafting group at the time.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2023
• Barnes grew up in the house now teetering on the edge of the riverbank.
  — Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 26 June 2024
• Across the river ice, the timber on the far riverbank is dark.
  — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Others threw ropes from the riverbank or jumped in after them.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 14 June 2019
• The camp’s cabins for its youngest were closest to the riverbank.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 July 2025
• The mob dragged them out, led them to the riverbank and shot them multiple times.
  — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2019
• There was fighting along the stone ramparts to the north and the riverbank to the west.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The hospital is not far from a riverbank that was wiped out by the flooding.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2018
• The clip begins with a person punching a tree on a riverbank.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2022
• Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
  — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026
• The animal wasn't moving, and its head was stuck in the mud on the riverbank.
  — Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• When night fell, Kevin snuck out of the shack and hurried toward the dark riverbank.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2020
• The rescuers brought in cadaver dogs to scour the riverbanks.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• Amy Rivera, who had been searching for Kyrin the past two days, kept to the riverbank.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2021
• The quietest belongs to the rare brant bird that squawks just out of sight along the rice paddies and riverbanks.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
• Take caution when walking near riverbanks.
  — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• The earth between the pipe and the riverbank is covered in a slick-looking, bright orange goop.
  — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
• In the video, Samba is seen sunbathing on the riverbank in Twyford.
  — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
• Santoshi and Subash led them into the woods, to the riverbank.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• Before the race started, the swimmers gathered on the riverbank across from the monastery.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The next day, though, the explorers encountered more rapids and were forced to steer to the riverbank.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023