Sentence examples for a huge river from inspiring English sources

He turned east and found the mouth of a huge river — the Congo.

Not far from Swiss Camp, there is a huge river of ice known as the Jakobshavn Isbrae, which probably was the source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic.

With visibility at just a few metres, and with the sound of a huge river rushing in the steep valley below, progress is reduced to a crawl.There are excuses for the poor condition of the road.

At the time it was the largest water project in the world and proposed raising a huge river by 145m so gravity could feed 75,000kms of canals to bring water to 30m people.

"He has these extraordinary theories into which he can fit all the facts, and this gives him a great flow, like a huge river which is unmistakably coming from somewhere and going somewhere, but the longer you listen, the more you realise he is trying to push water uphill".

"It is a huge river and very beautiful.

Erosion is a concern across Assam, as the huge river regularly shifts course while carrying sand and other sediment from the Himalayas in a simultaneous process of construction and destruction: new sandbars appear even as old, inhabited places are battered by the currents of the river.

Over a stretch of 30km, the Mekong divides into a muddled network of streams and channels, tumbling over cascades and shoals.But the main reason this huge river has always been such a commercial backwater is the scanty population along its course.

"Building up huge river banks and dredging is a very old-fashioned approach which experience shows work to a point, but when we get these extreme weather events it's not enough".

Dr. Francis, of Rutgers, has presented evidence that this is affecting the jet stream, the huge river of air that circles the Northern Hemisphere in a loopy, meandering fashion.

This, for example, came up while I was writing about the Atchafalaya, the huge river swamp in southern Louisiana, and how it looked from a small plane in the air.