Sentence examples for a big bend from inspiring English sources

Along a 1.5-mile (2.5-km) stretch of the Tiber, around a big bend in its course, lie all the historic quarters of the river plain.

It is situated at a big bend in the Yangtze River, about a hundred and fifty miles upriver from Shanghai, in Zhangjiagang, a giant factory city, built so recently that there's been no time to name all the streets.

The Platte flows southeast into a big bend at Kearney, curves northeast, and travels east, south, and east again before emptying into the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Omaha.

Another couple spending a few months as volunteers in a Big Bend campground divides their time between various national parks: summer in Yellowstone, winter in Big Cypress preserve in Florida.

Founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne in 1718 on a big bend in the Mississippi (hence the nickname "Crescent City"), ruled for decades by Spain, it came under American control with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

Looking over the vista, with its view of a red-rock butte and a big bend in the Colorado River down below, the president remarked that Malia wanted to know why the tops of the canyon were so perfectly straight.

With a high-octane fastball and a big, bending curve, Robertson averages 10.32 strikeouts per nine innings.

It's not a short corner, it's a very big bend, and we're some way around it and we've still got a long way to go.

Once, he spent twenty-two days walking across Texas with nothing but a bedroll, a flashlight, and a rifle, from Big Bend, in the west, to Houston, where he was going to deliver a paper at a biology conference.

It's about 80 miles south to Study Butte, where there is an entrance to Big Bend National Park, and a few miles farther to Terlingua, a reviving ghost town.

The vertebrae Mr. Fiorillo's team excavated from a slope in Big Bend National Park can weigh up to a half-ton, so it will be displayed on the floor beside the skeleton.