How to Use riverine in a Sentence

riverine

adjective

• There are riverine deposits of sand, silt and gravel, as well as outcroppings of limestone and marl.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The park is arguably one of the most famous in the world and covers 5,700 square miles of grassland, riverine forest, woodlands and savannah.
  — Olivia Yasukwa and Torera Idowu, CNN, 16 May 2017
• Reaching the villages involves two thin riverine crossings on rickety boats and at least an hour’s walk on dirt tracks.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
• Sahera was living at the time in Sukharjar, a riverine village in the remote Indian state of Assam.
  — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Think: intense rainfall, storm surges, tidal sources, and riverine flooding—which will worsen with climate change.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 6 July 2020
• That’s exactly what happened: The riverine pulse returned, and with each year, the run of alewives returning from Casco Bay grew bigger.
  — James Prosek, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
• Soils here are a complex mix of limestone, loess, granite, clay, gravel banks (both riverine and glacial moraine), sand and decomposed volcanics.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• Peter Handke commands one of the great German-language prose styles of the postwar period, a riverine rhetoric deep and swift and contrary of current.
  — Joshua Cohen, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2016
• While Neely Henry is traditionally stingy on weights, the challenge will be to break down the pattern on this riverine lake and find enough fish to score consistently throughout the event.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 23 Dec. 2020
• Its riverine swamplands host jillions of buzzy insects, which in turn make Alaska the destination of billions of breeding birds in spring and summer.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
• The trip ended with an evening cruise aboard a private pontoon; the camp's flickering torchlight is the only thing that distracts from the soundlessness of the riverine realm after the sun sets behind the ancient jackalberries.
  — Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
• Game drives and bush walks are the big attraction here, with opportunities to see the Big Five and many other animals; in the evening, the swimming pool and its sun deck overlooking riverine woodlands are perfect spots for bird-watching.
  — John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
• Three hundred and thirty million children are highly exposed to riverine flooding.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
• Her assessment is just one among dozens of other scientists who have observed clear colorations between the presence of cattle in riverine ecosystems and degradation.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
• But this uniquely Australian creature’s riverine habitat is being threatened by climate change, in the form of more severe and more frequent droughts, as well as by water diversion and extraction.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
• During these events, boaters get to understand the riverine ecosystem and its threats while taking water samples in secluded areas that aren’t normally surveyed by researchers.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
• Given the complete saturation of soils with ongoing river flooding along the Texas and Louisiana coastal areas, heavy rain could lead to flash, urban, and additional riverine flooding across this region.
  — Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• The government’s emphasis on building dams, dikes, and levees to prevent riverine floods has been less effective in ensuring the protection of growing cities on floodplains, especially amid extreme rain, experts say.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2021
• Rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches are possible later Monday across southern and central Mississippi – with the potential for considerable flash, urban, small stream and riverine flooding – as Ida turns northeast and moves inland.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2021
• For less strenuous riverine outings, there’s a Tennessee River biking alternative farther on in Chattanooga.
  — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• The concentration of flood damage in urban areas with large black populations may contrast to images of hurricanes hitting affluent coastal areas and riverine floods swamping rural, largely white communities.
  — Thomas Frank, Scientific American, 2 June 2020
• But the story is different now: Further sustainable growth depends on funneling workers into the technology, high-end-services and export-oriented industries concentrated in the big coastal and riverine cities as population growth slows sharply.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2021
• Context-specific historic climate data like precipitation, temperature and coastal and riverine flooding levels is freely available.
  — Suman Biswas, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• Past beneficiaries were almost exclusively riverine communities in the U.S.’s rural interior—people who lived too close to the overflowing Mississippi and Red rivers, for instance, were relocated nearby.
  — Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
• Three fishermen from nearby riverine communities were arrested.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave, ajc, 26 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024