River in sentence

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The river that was bursting with life in their childhood greets them “with a ghastly skull’s smile, with holes where teeth had been, and a limp hand raised from a hospital bed.”

This is one of three river deltas in coastal South India where communities came together to change the face and potentially, the fate of this planet.

OK, Heraclitus did say a man can't step in the same river twice, because it's not the same river, he's not the same man.

But if the river is changing randomly, it really is the same river.

I was approaching a toll bridge crossing the great river, and the toll collector said I could not turn back.

It's an opera house next to the river, in the wetland park.

Du Bois, "The town, the whole valley, has turned its back upon the river.

I'd lived in this area all my life, and you could not get to the river, because of all the lovely facilities that I mentioned earlier.

There were weeds and piles of garbage and other stuff that I won't mention here, but she kept dragging me, and lo and behold, at the end of that lot was the river.

This is an annual melting river.

I took my breath in the wrong part of the wave, choked on river water and was unable to steer myself.

I know I want to raft the river again.

Yusupov and his accomplices pursued him, finally killing Rasputin with a bullet to the forehead and dumping his body in the Malaya Nevka river.

And we don't really understand yet how they navigate the landscape, remembering the safest places to cross a river.

Fleets of them could land on open beaches, penetrate deep into river systems, and be moved over land if need be.

Hundreds of families enter the United States by crossing the Rio Grande river.

It's obviously also about taking responsibility, like I did here when throwing some green dye in the river in L.A., Stockholm, Norway and Tokyo, among other places.

The "Green river," as a kind of activist idea, not a part of an exhibition, it was really about showing people, in this city, as they walk by, that space has dimensions.

And so, in fact, they concocted a couple of early, you know, founding public-health interventions in the system of the city, one of which was called the "Nuisances Act," which they got everybody as far as they could to empty out their cesspools and just pour all that waste into the river.

You can see this river being formed.

Fish was, of course, coming in by river as well.

So my colleague and myself came 30 kilometers south of Ifakara town across the river.

It took place, once, in 326 B.C. on the banks of a river called the Indus, now in Pakistan.

This river lends itself to India's name.

You see, the Indians also had a river that separates the land of the living from the land of the dead.

You dunk it in the river.

In fact, you can't even take the name of the country for granted, because the name "India" comes from the river Indus, which flows in Pakistan.

Take, for example, this child of a Barasana in the Northwest Amazon, the people of the anaconda who believe that mythologically they came up the milk river from the east in the belly of sacred snakes.

It's not misguided river engineers who are doing all this; it's us.

I mean, just incredible to see bunches of gharial basking on the river again.

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