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Example sentences for "narrow channel"

  • Although the hills confine the Zambesi within a narrow channel for a number of miles, there are no rapids beyond those near the entrance.

  • Two of our canoes passed safely down a narrow channel, which, bifurcating, had an ugly whirlpool at the rocky partition between the two branches, the deep hole in the whirls at times opening and then shutting.

  • They pushed the yacht along the narrow channel, which was barely wide enough for it, until they came to its outlet into the broad, and then they found their progress barred.

  • The reason is this, the broad is not more than three feet deep all over, save for a narrow channel in the middle, which is marked out by posts at long intervals, and if the wherry forsook this channel she would run aground.

  • It strikes me there is a narrow channel, or dyke, leading from the river, which may lead to where that light is.

  • The settlement, as before described, is built on a small tract of cleared land at the lower or eastern end of the lake, six or seven miles from the main Amazons, with which the lake communicates by a narrow channel.

  • The negro left us and turned up a narrow channel, the Parana- mirim dos Ramos (the little river of the branches, i.

  • Part of its inner side, however, is intersected by a narrow channel of thirteen and seventeen feet; the guide through which, is the eastern edge of the clump of trees before mentioned, bearing South 45 degrees West.

  • The entrance to this great basin is by a narrow channel in the north-east corner; a long spit extending off the inner western entrance-point forms the chief impediment.

  • Next in quick glance he saw a narrow channel of leaping, tossing, curling white-crested waves under sunlighted mist and spray.

  • Looked at from above, this long, narrow channel, with several S curves, was a fascinating bit of water for a canoeist.

  • The natives, in paddling diagonally across a narrow channel, ran aground in the sand.

  • To row the wrong way, in order to assist the steersman in a narrow channel.

  • On the shores of Scotland it means a narrow channel or strait.

  • The contention of currents in a narrow channel.

  • The operation of tide-working in a narrow channel or river, by kedge-hauling.

  • S by a narrow Channel, a hard wind from the N.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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