(n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
(n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
(v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Infection level increased sharply in the age-group 6-10 years old among people residing far from the rivers.
(5) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
(6) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
(7) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
(8) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(9) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
(10) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
(11) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(12) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(13) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(14) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(15) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
(16) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(17) Larval populations from the three rivers were genetically distinct.
(18) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
(19) This polymorphism enabled us to differentiate a Hudson River population from that encountered in the Maine rivers.
(20) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
Riverside
Definition:
(n.) The side or bank of a river.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emergency Room patients at Riverside General Hospital who are found by the attending physician to have depressed sensorium and altered personality are routinely subjected to urine tests for various drugs of abuse including phencyclidine (PCP).
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(4) This work represents an example of the effectiveness of the Riverside East FMS model in influencing prescribing behaviour.
(5) From “public” spaces owned and regulated by corporations to gated communities and riverside spaces only accessible to a select few, our cities are becoming increasingly privatised .
(6) The prime minister will announce five strategic locations for 120,000 new houses and up to 180,000 new jobs along 40 miles of riverside in what has been hailed as the biggest co-ordinated building programme for more than 50 years.
(7) In the cities of Oasis and Riverside, Calif., tadpole shrimp significantly reduced the abundance of immature mosquitoes (Cx.
(8) The relationship between drying (moisture content) of soil and tadpole shrimp hatch was determined in studies conducted in mesocosms at the University of California Aquatic and Vector Control Research facilities at Riverside and at Oasis in the Coachella Valley of southern California.
(9) Hand-dug protected wells had significantly higher levels of faecal contamination than unprotected riverside wells and springs during the dry season.
(10) O Soeiro restaurant (4 Rua do Município, +351 281 546 241) opens out onto the adjoining church steps and riverside.
(11) Although he hosted the couple’s wedding celebration dinner at a mosque and frequently talked with Farook, Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Centre of Riverside, said that he had at most exchanged a few pleasantries with Malik.
(12) The Boro academy graduate Jason Steele made three fine saves from the former Blackburn striker Jordan Rhodes and, after Hope Akpan had given Rovers the lead, Danny Graham, another who spent the formative years of his career at the Riverside, doubled the advantage.
(13) On that January afternoon, Soraya returned from the riverside to the house to find her dying sister on the floor, and the AK-47 propped a few feet away against the wall, with no blood on it or nearby.
(14) We then put on a live show at the Riverside studios in Hammersmith to help persuade him, with all the material the four of us had been doing on the standup circuit.
(15) It has proposed a series of options, of which its preferred choice is to close the city’s central library, relocating it to a new “Derby Riverside library”, and to hand 11 other branches over to volunteers, according to the Derby Telegraph .
(16) A prime example of this is Roda Sten - an old boiler house on the concrete riverside that’s now a huge arts and cultural space.
(17) Glasgow's Riverside Museum is as much a memorial as a celebration of the city's shipbuilding tradition.
(18) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
(19) Earlier he was seen leaving his riverside home in Bray, Berkshire, by boat.
(20) He was perfect for us tonight.” The Riverside was rocking the last time this pair met .