River in sentence

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And no tribe could really do anything about it, because each of them controlled just a tiny section of the river.

And then in a long and complicated process, the tribes coalesced together to form the Chinese nation, which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.

These are sailors who in the darkness, in the hull of the vessel, can distinguish as many as 32 different sea swells moving through the canoe at any one point in time, distinguishing local wave disturbances from the great currents that pulsate across the ocean, that can be followed with the same ease that a terrestrial explorer would follow a river to the sea.

The sacred river, the Urubamba, or the Vilcanota, which is itself the Earthly equivalent of the Milky Way, but it's also the trajectory that Viracocha walked at the dawn of time when he brought the universe into being.

And where does the river rise?

The short answer is: the crisis began when an emergency manager, appointed by Michigan's governor, decided to switch their water source to a local river to save money.

He floats on a trickle that reaches a stream, a stream that flows into a river, and a river that reaches the ocean.

After rejecting a nymph named Echo, he caught a glimpse of his own reflection in a river, and fell in love with it.

Aegina’s father, the river god Asopus, pursued their trail to Ephyra, where he encountered Sisyphus.

Before dying, he asked his wife Merope to throw his body in the public square, from where it eventually washed up on the shores of the river Styx.

So A.B. took Prince and his mother to the river, got in a canoe and paddled for four hours to get to the hospital.

Then his mentor, a priest, was kidnapped, tortured, killed and thrown into a river.

I want to talk to you guys specifically about a river.

So here again you can see that c-shaped pathway that this river takes as it exits Nepal.

August is monsoon season in this region of the world, and anyone that lives near a river is no stranger to flooding and the hazards and inconveniences at minimum that are associated with that.

But something interesting happened in 2008, and this river moved in a way that's very different.

This river moved over 30 miles very abruptly.

So this river got clogged and it jumped its banks.

Here's an image from about a week later, and you can see these are the previous pathways, and you can see this process of river-jumping continues as this river moves farther away from its major course.

I want to show you guys some river wiggles here.

So we're going to fly down to the Amazon River basin, and here again we have a big river system that is draining and moving and plowing material from the Andean Mountains, transporting it across South America and dumping it out into the Atlantic Ocean.

So if we zoom in here, you guys can see these nice, curvy river pathways.

So take a minute and just watch any bend or curve in this river, and you'll see it doesn't stay in the same place for very long.

If you look in this area in particular, I want you guys to notice there's a sort of a loop in the river that gets completely cut off.

It's almost like a whip cracking and snaps off the pathway of the river at a certain spot.

So just for reference, again, in this location, that river changed its course over four miles over the course of a season or two.

This yellow blob here, this is actually a fossil river, so just like this cartoon I showed, these are deposits that were laid down 55 million years ago.

The yellow blob here is a fossil river.

For example, the features I just highlighted there tell us that this particular river was probably about three feet deep.

So instead of bulldozing, leveling the site and building right up to the river, this green edge was something that really wasn't normative in China until these set of practices began experimentation there.

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