How to Use riverbed in a Sentence

riverbed

noun

• Some had been buried in a riverbed, their pages caked in mud.
  — Teele Rebane, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
• Small piles of dead fish and shrimp were strewn about the riverbed.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
• Then the riverbed snaked on, a dusty artery passing through green fields.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• The riverbed sinks and turns to stone, and a motley beard of roots shrouds the banks.
  — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
• About four years ago, Ballesteros came to the riverbed for refuge.
  — Anh Do, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• There is not much space between the bottom of the boats and the riverbed.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Some walked further up the dry riverbed, others cut through the brush.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• Behind the flags, the riverbed was dry dirt, cleared and leveled.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• The guide placed a finger to his mouth, then pointed to the dry riverbed ahead.
  — Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2022
• When Chung returned to the riverbed, it had been washed down stream in a storm.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• Grass some eight feet tall, sprouting from the riverbed, rustled in the slight breeze.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
• The streams where cows once freely roamed are fenced off, as is the Shenandoah riverbed.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2017
• Dams put water into the dry riverbed in the center of the city.
  — John Buntin, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2018
• Do your best to be aware of the geography of the riverbed or lakebed.
  — OregonLive.com, 22 June 2017
• The water flows aboveground for about a mile and then soaks into the riverbed.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• That the blood of continuity still pumped, that the day ran in its riverbed.
  — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Williams said the entire riverbed started taking fire from the high ground.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2019
• From the air, much of Haiti is a maze of dry riverbeds and rugged mountains stripped of trees.
  — Denise Schrier Cetta, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• Her property spans the riverbed and includes shady stands of mesquite trees.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient gushing water once were.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
• The dirt along the riverbed today looks as though somebody took a cleaver to a chocolate cake.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The riverbed in the Bolter Valley was slick with a ribbon of ice.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2022
• The feet and butt can act as little bumpers to push away from rocks and boulders lying across the riverbed.
  — Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
• The river at this point (more properly a fjord, a riverbed drowned by the sea) is vast and sullen.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Other machines will dig under the riverbed.
  — ABC News, 13 May 2026
• Fire personnel and lifeguards gathered at the scene to help pull the body from the riverbed.
  — Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• Soil types here include rocky and alluvial soils from ancient riverbeds.
  — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 1 May 2026
• The storm blasted down riverbeds, blew out bridges and roads and swallowed vehicles.
  — Matt Gutman, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
• Be aware of a road closure due to a brush fire burning in the riverbed in @CityofSantee.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• As Davis stands in the riverbed, a drone hums overhead, archiving what the drought gave them.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022