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Example sentences for "water river"

  • After proceeding four miles and a half, we were stopped by a large salt-water river, which seemed to be very deep below where we struck it, and trended towards a bight of the coast where it appeared to form a junction with the sea.

  • This continued to a salt-water river, broad, and apparently deep near the sea.

  • We soon came to a salt-water river, with a broad sandy bed, perfectly free of vegetation, although its banks were fringed with drooping tea-trees.

  • I turned to the northward, and found a practicable path between the hills, and came, after crossing a small sandy creek to a fine salt-water river, as broad as any we had seen.

  • We were just turning to the westward, expecting to find a large salt-water river before us, when we heard Charley's gun, the signal of his having found water.

  • Proceeding onwards to Queen Elizabeth's island, the pinnace was sent off to a fresh-water river on the main, which was found frozen up.

  • The stream into which we have now passed is, literally, an immense salt-water river in the sea.

  • From Wrangell we debouched westward by Sumner Strait, the wide salt-water river that continues the narrow fresh-water river of Stickeen to the Pacific Ocean.

  • At its northern end it again branches into the Chilkat and Chilkoot Inlets, the former being taken; and at its head, the highest northing we can reach in this great inland salt-water river, our voyage on the Victoria terminated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came alongside; marched from; shown later; then add; water bath; water bottles; water colors; water colours; water down; water evaporated; water fishes; water from; water mark; water over; water resources; water rights; water shortages; water species; water surface; water system; water until; water vessels; water would; watered stock; watering place; watery grave