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as in canal
a passageway for water
A fallen tree branch was floating down the river.
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as in stream
an overwhelming flow or rush of something
Jet streams can be thought of as giant rivers of air that circulate around the globe. He was overwhelmed by the river of new information that the document dump provided.
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Recent Examples of river
Río Ancho was shot in a river descending from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to the Caribbean Sea near to Dibulla in western La Guajira.
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John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025
Just off the Gregory House, a trail leads to the Hammock Landing Battery, where Confederate soldiers guarded the river from attack, protecting their manufacturing hub in Columbus, Georgia.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
The bridge would go from Sequoia Pacific Boulevard on the south side of the river to Truxel Road in South Natomas.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 18 Jan. 2025
Primarily, the beautiful lakes, rivers, and swimming holes that abound.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
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John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025
Just off the Gregory House, a trail leads to the Hammock Landing Battery, where Confederate soldiers guarded the river from attack, protecting their manufacturing hub in Columbus, Georgia.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
The bridge would go from Sequoia Pacific Boulevard on the south side of the river to Truxel Road in South Natomas.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 18 Jan. 2025
Primarily, the beautiful lakes, rivers, and swimming holes that abound.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for river
Recent Examples of Synonyms for river
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In the 1970s, diverse forces on the right came together to fight against ceding control of the canal to Panama, seeing the move as weak and antithetical to American interests.—
Aaron Coy Moulton / Made by History,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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The firefighters fought for hours to extinguish the blaze but were unable to save the home, which is located on a canal on the eastern side of Lake Okeechobee, and two cars in the garage, including a red 1955 Ford Thunderbird.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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The magnetic field can be disrupted by stronger solar winds; the stunning auroras are created when the storm's particle stream interacts with gases in the planet's magnetic field.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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Newsweek previously confirmed that Superior Judge Mark Arnold is allowing one camera in the courtroom for this trial, so all streams will likely show the same footage from inside the court.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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To protect ecosystems, the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior require planes to avoid dropping fire retardant within 300 feet of waterways (ground deliveries must also avoid waterways).—
Terry Dickerson,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Residents will learn more about helping to protect our waterways by being water wise and understanding Volusia County’s fertilizer ordinance.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Jan. 2025
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Showers could linger into Tuesday, spawning flood watches in areas where the Palisades, Franklin, Eaton, Bridge, and Hughes wildfires burned.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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Ahead of the storm, the National Weather Service issued flood watches for the Palisades, Eaton, Hughes, Franklin and Bridge fire burn scars.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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Surreal images from the novel that could easily have looked silly on screen—a rivulet of blood winds its way across town, from the home where a character dies to his family’s abode, for example—retain their poetic profundity.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
2 Dec. 2024
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Later in the morning, experts will take a look at the start-up landscape and the trajectory for global interest rates, while the afternoon will see a range of public figures consider the rise of economic nationalism, the future of healthcare and whether Latin America’s economic tide is turning.—
Sam Meredith,Chloe Taylor,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
22 Jan. 2025
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Coulibaly cannot turn the tide of Leicester’s season alone, though.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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“River.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/river. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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