river

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Recent Examples of river Actor Joshua Jackson has reflected on a river of emotions flowing through the Dawson's Creek cast — including his enduring affection for coster and former girlfriend Katie Holmes. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025 The vehicle apparently veered off the highway into the river. Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2025 Over the past week, India has suspended visas for Pakistani visitors, expelled some of its diplomats, and halted a decades-old treaty that divides six rivers between the two countries. Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 27 Apr. 2025 These hotels, all opened in the last year, show travelers luxurious Lowcountry living in South Carolina, a Florida Keys resort with a lazy river, and a manor hotel on 90 acres, just an hour’s drive from Manhattan. Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for river
Recent Examples of Synonyms for river
Noun
  • The Hide Resting among the romantic canals of Madinat Jumeirah, the palatial Four-Star Jumeirah Al Qasr is a spectacular location for an elegant night out in Dubai.
    Natasha Amar, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Ancient Egyptians are famous for their pioneering and mastery of hydraulics through canals for irrigation purposes and barges to transport huge stones.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The former registered 900,000 streams for the week, while the latter pulled 1 million.
    Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 1 May 2025
  • Music from a constant stream of YouTube videos pumps out from every corner, with an eclectic mix that ranges from Courtney Love to Missy Elliott to Selena.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Moving packages on our waterways was first proposed in 1994.
    Tom Fox, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • View gallery - 3 images A benzodiazepine seeping into waterways is causing young Atlantic salmon to behave strangely, with fish in the wild migrating more rapidly and taking more risks on their journey from river to ocean.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For more than four decades, the state of the climate has been part of the national conversation—especially when severe weather events linked to a warming world such as droughts, floods, heat waves, and hurricanes occur.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Constructed in the later half of the 19th century, the building has weathered fire, flood, abandonment—and even ghosts.
    Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.
    Chris Hedges, Harpers Magazine, 15 June 2024
  • The body meld transforms into a mind meld near the end, when each woman shoots streams of shiny water from their eyes, with the separate rivulets crashing into each other to form a floating, fiery disco ball heart.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On April 28, Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party won a comeback election on a tide of anti-Trump sentiment.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • Amid the crushing weight of history and with the sound of a large bandwagon frantically emptying across the city, Craig Berube is left to press on against the tide.
    Chris Johnston, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025

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“River.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/river. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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