Sentence examples for a powerful river from inspiring English sources

The effect is that of locks in a powerful river, channeling its flow.

When we calculate the amount of energy needed to push evolution thermodynamically "uphill," it is clear that, like a powerful river, the Sun provides more than sufficient "flow" to not only turn the "hydroelectric turbines" of life's foundation (the primary producers) but to distribute "electricity" with incrementally increasing efficiency over time.

These little conveyor belts fed into a bigger conveyor belt, like streams feeding into a powerful river.

While searching for the ultimate source of the Columbia River, explorer David Thompson encountered Columbia Lake, where the Columbia River starts north as a small stream and the Kootenay rushes south, already a powerful river.

The poem compares the prophet to a powerful river that slowly but surely gathers other streams as it flows to its destiny in the ocean where it meets the divine.

As in Friedman's description above, theater educators across America, from high school teachers to undergraduate departments to grad schools, represent the "thousands of different suppliers" who ship their "products" (i.e., their students) from all parts of the nation to New York where they feed the theatrical conveyor belt "like streams into a powerful river".

By the time it reaches Plano, the Fox is a broad, powerful river, the kind that once gave rise to milling and manufacturing in dignified towns farther upstream.

The decrease in incision depths, recorded by deposit thicknesses above strath terraces, and the differences in clast character (size and roundness) and type between the two units, are ascribed to a more powerful river system during Proto-Orange River time, rather than reworking of older deposits, changes in provenance or climatic variations.

And as the filmmakers talked to residents, ranchers and sportsmen along the way, it became clear that even a wide, powerful river that meanders through some of the most rugged and remote terrain in the United States can be a far more fragile thing than one might expect.

That's just a part of where I came from, and the river has that same kind of power for me because I grew up on a really large, powerful river.

To complete his masterpiece, the god sets a boundary around this teeming scene: "the powerful river of Ocean flowing /... along its outermost rim".