(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.
Sasse
Definition:
(n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
Example Sentences:
(1) His own Fear, Anger and Disgust take charge and Riley is sent to her room, dad celebrating what he appears to believe is a perfectly pitched fatherly response to unprecedented levels of “sass”.
(2) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
(3) There were one or two exceptions –rightwinger Ben Sasse won the party's nomination in Nebraska, and in Mississippi, Chris McDaniel forced the incumbent Thad Cochran into a runoff.
(4) Tuesday saw the return of sass & bide, who gathered a star-studded front row including Iggy Azalea, Zoe Kravitz and Poppy Delevingne, after a six-year hiatus.
(5) He then introduces the seven essays that comprise this issue: Baruch Brody's "The President's Commission: the need to be more philosophical," Alastair Campbell's "Committees and commissions in the United Kingdom," Pascal Kasimba and Peter Singer's "Australian commissions and committees on issues in bioethics," John Williams' "Commissions and biomedical ethics: the Canadian experience," François-André Isambert's "Ethics committees in France," Rihito Kimura's "Ethics committees for 'high tech' innovations in Japan," and Hans-Martin Sass's "Blue-ribbon commissions and political ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany."
(6) Senators Ben Sasse and Dean Heller have said they oppose Trump, nominee or no.
(7) Ben Sasse, a Republican senator for Nebraska and frequent Trump critic, said on Twitter : “John Lewis and his ‘talk’ have changed the world.” Conservative commentator Bill Kristol posted: “It’s telling, I’m afraid, that Donald Trump treats Vladimir Putin with more respect than he does John Lewis.” Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer who ran as an independent conservative in the presidential election, said : “While you avoided the draft, John Lewis risked his life for equality in America.
(8) According to the clinical model based on natural sciences, we expect an approach to valid entities by an optimisation of the defining criteria which are derived from psychological, somatological and clinical sources (Sass, 1987).
(9) Read more In contrast, the Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse, a frequent critic of Trump, called for the president to explain what he was talking about and his sources of information regarding the alleged surveillance.
(10) These latter, which are outlined and compared, are as follows: the methodology developed by David Thomasma in the 1960s and 1970s; one created by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade; another developed by the author; and the Bochum Protocol authored by Hans-Martin Sass et al.
(11) These compounds were extracted from blood or isotonic saline using a modification of the method developed by Sass et al.
(12) We are in the midst of a civilization-warping crisis of public trust, and the president’s allegations today demand the thorough and dispassionate attention of serious patriots,” Sasse said in a statement.
(13) Sass proposes that a basis be sought in "intermediate moral principles" that have found support in various ideologies and in complementary application of several models of doctor-patient hermeneutics and communication.
(14) We don’t have so-called judges, we don’t have so-called senators, we don’t have so-called presidents,” Sasse told ABC’s This Week.
(15) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) were carefully wrought examples of swamp gothic – unashamedly ornate, lush and impressionistic, and for all its metropolitan sass, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Capote's third novel, in which he gave us the kooky, amoral Holly Golightly, also had its roots in the deep south.
(16) This open letter aims simply to ask ‘WHY is that the only choice?’” Sasse wrote.
(17) We have previously shown that bFGF is found in subendothelial ECM (Vlodavsky, I., J. Folkman, R. Sullivan, R. Fridman, R. Ishai-Michaeli, J. Sasse, and M. Klagsburn.
(18) Although one Tea Party-backed Senate candidate, Ben Sasse, won in Nebraska, and dozens of so-called “establishment” candidates were forced to adopt deeply conservative positions to run viable campaigns, the Republican leadership felt it was starting to quell the rightwing revolt.
(19) Zaner, and H.-M. Sass in this issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy on anencephalic infants as organ donors.
(20) 84:2292-2296) and in basement membranes (Folkman, J., M. Klagsburn, J. Sasse, M. Wadzinski, D. Ingber, and I. Vlodavsky.