Word Finder - river

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A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

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Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.

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Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

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a river of blood

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The last card dealt in a hand.

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A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

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To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

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Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

Everything west of the river was blank.

Everything west of the river is fine.

It was on these byways that Dean opted to travel, rolling along the river with the down of cottonwoods filling the air like a winter snowstorm, past the occasional farm house, fields, and ever-present vista of mountains wrapping around him.

He continued to trudge forward, leaving the river and crowds behind.

Let's go up river a way and you can hold my rope.

The size of the river made Lana tick off one of her alternatives.

The chasm appeared to Dean to be a hundred feet or more to the river below.

I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost as green as grass.

There's no river feeding into this lake.

Brady could've lost it in the river, but she should still pick up some electromagnetic fluctuation, if he was anywhere except the bottom of the river.

She sat on the river bank across from a series of wide, large steps leading up a hill to the park where the Arch stood, framed against a black sky.

Now, mostly bound to its banks by ice, the river looked much less menacing as it wound its way downward.

We'll have to risk flying past the river if we want to find her.

While she despised the man, her feelings still lacked a motive to sever his rope in cold blood and watch him plummet down to the rocks and churning river below.

He did not notice the sound of the bullets whistling from every side, or the projectiles that flew over him, did not see the enemy on the other side of the river, and for a long time did not notice the killed and wounded, though many fell near him.

All the cities along the Mississippi River had been marked as contaminated to some extent.

The submarine bumped against the dock on the other side of the river, and the soldier turned it off.

The officer pointed with his hand to the smoke visible on the left beyond the river, and the same stern and serious expression that Pierre had noticed on many of the faces he had met came into his face.

It climbed gently along the escarpment above the river and was devoid of traffic.

Moscow seen from the Poklonny Hill lay spaciously spread out with her river, her gardens, and her churches, and she seemed to be living her usual life, her cupolas glittering like stars in the sunlight.

Her anger at him slid away as she huddled against a large river rock, alone.

We formed our own networks along the river and joined forces with the Twelfth Army.

After the junction of the two branches the river pursues a winding course, generally south-east, for about Boo m.

The couple strolled down Seventh Street to the bridge that crossed the Uncompahgre River as it spilled its way down from the mountains.

She struggled to pull herself out of the cabin, against the flow of cold river water.

With one last look at the river, she turned away and climbed the bank clumsily before heading towards the road leading from the bridge to her home.

Tipperary, Ireland, finely situated in a rich though hilly country near the river Nenagh, 962 m.

There are capacious docks on the river, which is crossed by a wrought-iron bridge, 1000 ft.

The total length of the river is estimated at 2860 m.

Altro Park, on an island a short distance down the river, is a pleasure resort in summer.

The Via Domitiana from Sinuessa to Puteoli crossed the river at this point, and some remains of the bridge are visible.

It is picturesquely situated in the hilly district of the upper valley of the river Aire, the course of which is followed by the Leeds and Liverpool canal.

The difficulties of the harbour were increased by the continued silting up, produced by the enormous amount of solid material brought down by the river.

For the first time the Volga became a Russian river.

This part of the river's course, the ancient Assyria, is also a rich agricultural region.

From a little above the confluence of the Great Zab downward, the banks of the river are absolutely uninhabited, and the river flows through a desert until Tekrit is reached.

Beginning shortly below Tekrit there are indications of considerable canalization, both for the purpose of irrigating country remote from the river, and also of shortening the course of the river for navigation.

The neighbouring country is pleasant enough, particularly along the river, but the town itself is purely industrial, and contains no pre-eminent buildings.

While these early traders used the canoe and the York boat,' yet the steam-boat played an important part in the early history of the region from 1868 till 1885, when access from the United States was gained by steamers down the Red River.

The river is crossed by two bridges, and its banks are bordered by picturesque old houses.

Two lines of steamers, an English and a Turkish, furnish an inadequate service between Basra and Bagdad, but there is no steam navigation on the river above the latter city.

Here the palm groves begin also, and from this point to a little beyond Bagdad the shores of the river are well cultivated.

The mud brought down by it, calculated at 7150 lb an hour at Bagdad, is not deposited in marshes to form alluvium, as in the case of the Euphrates, but although in flood time the river becomes at places an inland sea, rendering navigation extremely difficult and uncertain, the bulk of the mud is deposited in banks, shoals and islands in the bed of the river, and is finally carried out into the Persian Gulf.

Below the Shatt-el-Hai the country on both sides of the river is practically a swamp, except where the palm groves have formed land.

Just as in 335 he had crossed the Danube, so he now made one raid across the frontier river, the Jaxartes (Sir Dania), to teach the fear of his name to the outlying peoples of the steppe (summer 328).

Alexander left the conquered portion of India east of the Indus to be governed under Porus, Omphis of Taxila, and Abisares, the country west of the Indus under Macedonian governors, and set out to explore the great river The g ?

The exiles dwelt at Tell-abib (" Hill of the flood "), one of the mounds or ruins made by the great floods that devastated the country,1 near the " river " Chebar (Kebar), probably a large canal not far south of the city of Babylon.

On the S., Albanian territory was curtailed owing to the acquisition of the Arta district by Greece (May 1881), the river Arta now forming the frontier.

Central Albania differs from the northern and southern regions in the more undulating and less rugged character of its surface; it contains considerable lowland tracts, such as the wide and fertile plain of Musseki, traversed by the river Simen.

At its falls from Lake of the Woods is one of the greatest and most easily utilized water-powers in the world, and from falls lower down the river electric power for the city of Winnipeg is obtained.