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Example sentences for "steep bank"

  • Beyond the bridge we soon come to a picturesquely-situated farmhouse, standing on a steep bank, and looking down upon the meadows.

  • On the opposite side of the river is Cropthorne, surmounting a steep bank.

  • The case of the artist in making camps is exactly similar, and the philosophical reasons for his failure are exactly the same.

  • Its predisposing cause is a chart or map, and its main symptom is the feverish delight with which you check off the landmarks of your journey.

  • It apparently comes from no predisposing uneasiness of indigestion, no rashness in the matter of too much tea or tobacco, no excitation of unusual incident or stimulating conversation.

  • Get inside before you draw that deep breath of relief.

  • I have also caught many by placing two old logs five or six feet long, four or five inches apart in shallow water near a steep bank, cover with a larger log.

  • When you see signs of the mink set your trap as near as you can get to a spring, ditch or running water with a steep bank a foot or more high.

  • Find a steep bank a foot or more high near the water and dig a hole back in a foot deep and about eight inches high and level with the water.

  • Near the river, and nestling under a steep bank crowned by a far-seen church and spire, we came upon the inn of San Nicolo.

  • A steep bank of snow had to be climbed; this surmounted, our work was done, and we were looking away to the west over the wild ranges which enclose Val Livigno.

  • When we set out to descend the snow-field was soon crossed, to a point where it fell away in a steep bank.

  • This is an admirable plant for putting at the top of a wall or steep bank which it is desirable to drape with vegetation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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