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Example sentences for "its mouth"

  • The wealth of the great city at its mouth, the metropolis of the young nation, has been lavished upon the soil of the river's borders to make it even more beautiful and more fruitful.

  • Upon the left bank, at its mouth, nestles the little village of Tadousac, the summer retreat of the governor-general of the Dominion of Canada.

  • He told us that the silver eel was formerly abundant here, and pointed to some sunken creels at its mouth.

  • I have caught one which had swallowed a brother pickerel half as large as itself, with the tail still visible in its mouth, while the head was already digested in its stomach.

  • Unfitted to some extent for the purposes of commerce by the sand-bar at its mouth, see how this river was devoted from the first to the service of manufactures.

  • He then applied the bottle to its mouth, and as soon as it found out its contents it sucked it eagerly; he had hopes, therefore, of being able to bring it up.

  • It in this way collects its food, and carries it to its mouth, making use of it somewhat as an elephant does his trunk.

  • Then he pointed to its mouth, and in the same way tried to explain that it could not eat the meat placed before it.

  • As can thus easily be understood, an animal seizing the flesh pulls the lever which draws the trigger, and at the same moment that it has the meat in its mouth, the probabilities are that its brains will be blown out.

  • A stream which flows into Lake Bennet at the south-west corner is also very dirty, and has shoaled quite a large portion of the lake at its mouth.

  • It is apparently over a mile wide at its mouth or junction.

  • Pelly River at its mouth is about two hundred yards wide, and continues this width as far up as could be seen.

  • There will be numbers of them at its mouth.

  • In the morning Hannibal sent off five hundred Numidian horse to reconnoitre the river below, and ascertain what Scipio's army, which was known to have landed at its mouth, was doing.

  • He had little doubt now that Hannibal's intention was to follow the Rhone down on its left bank to its mouth, and he prepared at once for a battle.

  • Look to the right, you can make out the outline of the cliffs at its mouth, we have passed it already.

  • The Mississippi was now in our possession from its source to its mouth, except in the immediate front of Vicksburg and of Port Hudson.

  • The second was to send reinforcements to Banks near Port Hudson, if necessary, to complete the triumph of opening the Mississippi from its source to its mouth to the free navigation of vessels bearing the Stars and Stripes.

  • And in a trice she was up the cellar-steps again, but the Spitz had the sausage in its mouth already, and trailed it away on the ground.

  • The one in the middle held a mussel in its mouth, which it laid on the shore at the youth's feet, and when he had taken it up and opened it, there lay the gold ring in the shell.

  • But he remembered his flute, and began to play on it, and the fish came with the pen in its mouth, and gave it to him.

  • After a time a second snake crept out of the hole, and when it saw the other lying dead and cut in pieces, it went back, but soon came again with three green leaves in its mouth.

  • When, however, she had sat there for a while, a white dove came flying to her with a little golden key in its mouth.

  • Of the scene at its mouth, where La Salle and his men had sung with such joy, she says: "Had Dante seen it, he might have drawn images of another Bolgia from its horrors.

  • Here they left the Arkansas River and took a direct route for the Piney River, down which latter stream they traveled to a spot within twenty-five miles of its mouth.

  • They selected a site for their permanent camp on the Winty River, at its mouth, where the men made themselves as comfortable as possible under such circumstances.

  • The expression below seems ridiculous, as Abyssinia or Ethiopia containing the sources of the Nile must be higher than Egypt at its mouth.

  • The Red Sea, from Suez to its mouth extends 1800 miles in length; the coast running all the way from N.

  • On the 7th of the month we came to a river running from the north, having four small islands at its mouth, overgrown with fine large trees, which we named the Fouetz River.

  • Entering this river with our boats, we had about a fathom and half water at its mouth.

  • Its mouth is formed by two low points about a gun-shot apart, from each of which a shoal stretches towards the middle, where only there is any passage.

  • Paddling rapidly down this stream through realms of silence and solitude, they soon entered the majestic Mississippi, more than fifteen hundred miles above its mouth.

  • After an absence of several weeks, he returned with additional men and the means of building a large and substantial flat-bottomed boat, with which to descend the Illinois river to the Mississippi, and the latter stream to its mouth.

  • France to explore the Mississippi to its mouth.

  • It had now become a matter of infinite moment to the United States that the great Republic should have undisputed command of the Mississippi, from its source to its mouth.

  • The right bank is high and steep, the left flat; and at its mouth in the Caspian Sea it forms a very extensive delta.

  • Shanghai is situated on a small affluent which runs into the Yang-tse-kiang close to its mouth, and large ocean steamers cannot go up to the town.

  • It has a good harbor at its mouth, flows through an expanse of two hundred and fifty miles, and affords boat navigation for a distance of one hundred and thirty miles.

  • In order to test the question whether he was his own master, and could follow his own will, he suggested to the chief his design of turning back and following down the Mississippi to its mouth.

  • Strange must have been his reflections in those solemn hours, when he was anticipating the speedy approach of death, upon the banks of that wonderful stream which his enterprise had caused to be explored from its sources to its mouth.

  • Its mouth is transverse and paved with a band of flattened teeth calculated to crush the hard shells of the animals on which it feeds.

  • While he was examining the fruit, the doctor watched the bird, which, picking off fruit after fruit, appeared to throw them up and catch them in its mouth as they fell.

  • No sooner did a pigeon see the bait than it pounced down and seized it in its mouth, when a sharp tug secured the hook in its bill, and it was rapidly drawn on board.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its mouth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drawn battle; general system; good meat; great perplexity; its appearance; its author; its best; its body; its centre; its contents; its course; its distance from the; its first; its great; its height; its kind; its nature; its origin; its owner; its place; its work; itself only; itself sufficient; practical religion; said grandmamma; young days