How to Use river in a Sentence

river

noun
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  • The raft is too small to use on this part of the river.
  • Rivers of mud flowed down the hillside.
  • The tall figure had appeared in the backwoods, to the right of the river.
    — Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • The man pushed the calf up from the river and onto a roadway.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 June 2023
  • After a day on the ranch, wind down on the front porch of the wagon and watch the sun set over the river.
    — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • During the hike, Hoffman was shot in the back of the head and put into a river.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Think of a rip current as a swift river cutting through the surf away from the shore.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
  • Walking near the river, on a cold day, Eva Marie Saint drops a glove.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • More than 3 billion years ago, rivers of lava flowed on the moon.
    — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The punishment was to tie them to a ducking stool and toss them in a river.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The driver who picked him up crashed, and the car went flying into the river.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 15 June 2023
  • The boat that carries us over this river is big enough that all the women fit.
    — Jesmyn Ward, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Three wrestlers responded by staging a protest on the banks of the river Ganges.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • As in New Orleans, drinking water in the parish is drawn from the river.
    — Kevin McGill and Stephen Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The plant combines the full, lush look of the river fern with the exotic yet classic look of the dogtail plant.
    — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2023
  • The Maine State Police dive team will lead the charge, and officers from the agency will work the shore line along the river.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Brown noise is 'rougher' than pink noise, somewhat like the roar of a river current or strong wind.
    — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Set between two rivers in the foothills of the Black Mountains, the town of Montolieu has all the dreamy trappings of French country life.
    — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The volcano moved as much matter in a few hours as the world’s rivers delivered into the oceans in a whole year.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Liberty Reservoir drowned much of the river valley after the dam was built in the 1950s.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
  • Whisnant and her crew of river guides prepare the meals over open coals and serve dinner inside the yurt.
    — Jennifer Prince, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The Wave Waterpark has water slides, a lazy river, lap pools and tot play area.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The story of America is, in a very real sense, the story of its rivers and the struggle to control them.
    — John Buntin, wsj.com, 15 May 2023
  • Yet at the Goro Health Center, near the river that runs through the city, cases have been climbing steadily this year.
    — Stephanie Nolen Tiksa Negeri, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • When the next storm comes, Miura told me, the river will start to climb—slowly, more like a rising tide than a tsunami.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The burrata, warm as breath, bloomed against my knife into a river of sweet cream.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
  • For the time being, the new southbound bridge will be used to carry northbound traffic over the river.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Human development adds a lot of nitrogen to the soil, which then shows up in rivers around the state.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Anna’s mother tied the two-year-old Anna to her waist with a shawl and jumped into a river.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The plain, which lies along the Beaufort Sea on Alaska's northeastern edge, is marked by hills, rivers and small lakes and tundra.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2023

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