Rivers
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416 examples of Rivers in a sentence
They move in
rivers.
I remember a message sent to me saying that I was going to be killed and that
rivers
of blood were going to flow and that I was going to be raped many times before I died.
And in the water table, then they go into streams, into lakes, into
rivers
and into the sea.
And we've gained control of the other animals, of the rivers, of the forests, and reshaped them completely, causing an ecological destruction without making ourselves satisfied.
And I can't help but wonder what would happen if there were groups of women walking on Trayvon's block that day, or what would happen in the South Side of Chicago every day if there were groups of women and mothers and aunts and cousins walking, or along the polluted
rivers
of Flint, Michigan.
You can think of these
rivers
like bulldozers.
We can see these beautiful patterns that the
rivers
make as they're pushing material down to the sea, but these patterns aren't static.
These
rivers
are wiggling and jumping around quite a bit, and it can have big impacts on our lives.
So the Kosi River is flowing down here, but sometimes as these
rivers
are bulldozing sediment, they kind of get clogged, and these clogs can actually cause the
rivers
to shift their course dramatically.
So you can imagine in landscapes like this, where
rivers
move around frequently, it's really important to understand when, where and how they're going to jump.
So
rivers
also wiggle.
These
rivers
wiggle around.
So as
rivers
flow, as they're bulldozing material from the mountains to the sea, sometimes bits of sand and clay and rock get stuck in the ground.
So we can look at those to tell us what lived and grew on the landscape and to understand how these
rivers
were interacting with their floodplains.
So we can look in detail and reconstruct with some specificity how these
rivers
flowed and what the landscapes looked like.
So when we do this for this particular place at this time, if we look what happened before this abrupt warming event, the
rivers
kind of carved their way down from the mountains to the sea, and they looked maybe similar to what I showed you in the Amazon River basin.
But right at the onset of this climate change event, the
rivers
change dramatically.
Eventually, the
rivers
reverted back to a state that was more similar to what they would have looked like before this climate event, but it took a long, long time.
So some of the ways that
rivers
change or the reasons that
rivers
change their pattern and their movements is because of things like with extra water falling on the land's surface when climate is hotter, we can move more sediment and erode more sediment, and that changes how
rivers
behave.
Rhythmic flow, fluid and graceful, waves of serenity, smooth strings of purity, rains replenishing rapidly,
rivers
of dreams, raging springs covering earth in abundance, universal solvent dissolving, drink, liquid, life and power: water.
So to invoke the serpent in your dancing body then was to conjure the image of
rivers
cutting across the earth: inspire the flow of life-giving waters.
That leaves less than 1% available for sustaining all life on Earth, spread across our planet in rivers, lakes, underground aquifers, ground ice and permafrost.
It's a basin, and
rivers
flow down from the highlands into the basin, carrying sediment, preserving the bones of animals that lived there.
Filipe lives in one of the thousands of communities alongside the Amazonas
rivers.
It's four and a half times the size of Germany, and it's fully covered in jungle and
rivers.
You see the
rivers
which are coming along the coast, and you see that white area which looks like Catalina Island, and that looks like an ocean.
It looks like there are
rivers
on it, there are oceans or lakes, we know there are clouds.
The air fills the rivers, stirs the waters, waters the forests.
This is a city that is built for a Hindu religious festival called Kumbh Mela, which occurs every 12 years, in smaller editions every four years, and takes place at the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna
rivers
in India.
The reason so many people congregate here, is the Hindus believe that during the festival, the cycle every 12 years, if you bathe at the confluence of these two great
rivers
you are freed from rebirth.
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