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Example sentences for "left bank"

  • The twin towns of Concordia (right bank) and Salta (left bank) mark the limit of navigation on the inner course of the river.

  • Schatt is twenty miles inland from Duem, which is one hundred miles from here, on left bank of White Nile.

  • Halfeyeh reports that Faki Mustapha, who was in command of the Arabs on the west or left bank of the White Nile, wishes to join the Government.

  • Water wells up abundantly from a dozen shallow pits, old and new, in the sand of the southern or left bank.

  • The cloister is situated, as we have seen, upon the opposite or left bank, [376] and is bordered on two sides by a loop of the river.

  • You breathe a keener air when you emerge from the narrow valley; the town is placed at a little distance from the edge of the cliff which rises along the left bank.

  • From camp on left bank of little dry creek we left at 6.

  • At 8 made three-quarters of a mile west to a basaltic hill on left bank.

  • Started from camp which is situated on left bank of O'Shanassy River at 6.

  • All our equipage had reached the left bank safely at six o'clock, having to-day made twenty miles.

  • Left bank of the Missouri, opposite to the right bank of the mouth of the Platte.

  • We stopped for the night upon the left bank; and close to a burial-ground that differed from any I had ever seen.

  • The plain was upon the proper left bank of the Murray.

  • She was very soon disabled by a shot through her boilers, and was run ashore near the left bank, where the Tennessee and the Essex came to her assistance from below.

  • The 8th Vermont was thrown over to the east or left bank of the bayou, while the main line moved forward on the west bank to attack the Cotton, now in plain sight.

  • Lacy retreated by the other or left bank of the River, to guard against attempts from that side.

  • Chief town of Leeds County, Ontario, on left bank of St. Lawrence.

  • Our path led us hundreds of feet above the river's left bank, and brought us to our night's lodging in a solitary house.

  • Our road did not lie across the bridge, but continued to lead us along the stream's left bank.

  • A short distance beyond our camp a turn in the path brought us opposite to a ravine opening towards the east, on the river's left bank.

  • Commanding officer American and Allied troops left bank of Dvina, fall offensive and winter defensive campaigns of Dvina-Kotlas Force.

  • One from advance headquarters on left bank, British holding front.

  • The company commander was to be drafted as "left bank" commander of a mixed force and hold Toulgas those long, long months.

  • The main attack coming down the left bank of the Onega River was held by the Americans till after the enemy had driven back the Allies, Russians, on the right bank and placed a machine gun on our flank.

  • The country, and especially the hills beyond the left bank, affords excellent pasturage for sheep, as many large and thriving establishments testify.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "left bank" 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:
    common plant; considerable time; covered dish; empirical knowledge; least thirty; left camp; left college; left flank; left free; left guard; left hand; left here; left home; left none; left open; left school; left shoulder; left side; left the; left undone; left unfinished; little salt and pepper; locomotive power; mine eyes; sacred science; would remember