Sentence examples for arm of a river from inspiring English sources
In the study by Landry et al., however, a relatively small number of males (41) and females (35) were placed in the arm of a river that is not usually occupied by salmon because of impassable waterfalls.
On the north side an arm of the river and a high escarpment afforded natural defenses, which were augmented by a system of buttressed walls and by a powerful sally port called the mushlalu a semicircular tower of rusticated stone masonry, built by Sennacherib and probably the earliest known example of this type of architecture.
Swans search for a food in an arm of the Danube river covered with water plants in Vienna, Austria.
Paraíba is a name of Tupí Indian origin formed from the words para and hiba, meaning "arm of the river".
To reach Can Tho, on the second arm of the river, you still cross the yellow waters of the Mekong on the old ferryboat, meandering through the mangroves, past boat women rowing under their conical hats.
Paraíba is a name of Tupí Indian origin formed from the words para and hiba, meaning "arm of the river". The name of the capital was itself formerly Paraíba, but it was changed to honour the memory of a former governor, João Pessoa, a reformist and national vice presidential candidate whose assassination in 1930 helped spark the revolution that brought Getúlio Vargas to national power in Brazil.
The last structure at this location (at the end of modern Stradom Street) was dismantled in 1880 when the northern arm of the river was filled in with earth and rock, and subsequently built over.
That and my briny mouthful reminded me that I was not on some afterthought of a river, but a majestic arm of the Atlantic Ocean, an epic salt-water estuary whose discovery by Henry Hudson in 1609 opened up the entire region — what we now call the metropolitan area — to settlement and commerce.
The long arm of a mechanical digger was also used to lift people across the river.
The movements of a river?
