noun
definition
The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
Examples of riverbed in a Sentence
The railroad line and car parks sit in the old riverbed.
Two years ago, the site was just a dusty plain next to a dry riverbed.
Our campsite is on a pleasant grassy patch, on the now much higher bank of the rocky riverbed.
The railroad line runs parallel to the river in winding loops that follow the riverbed.
It must have tumbled about in an ancient riverbed for many thousands of years.
I finally managed to see a splendid male perched in a tree during the last riverbed walk on 24th near Tambdi Surla.
These allowed a faster flow of water which scoured the riverbed, taking huge amounts of silt downstream into the Firth of Clyde.
This former French administrative center is divided by a wide dried-up riverbed.
The physical habitat of the Lee between Welwyn and Hertford is good, with medium to fast water flow over a gravel riverbed.