Sentence examples for bend of a river from inspiring English sources

The unnamed narrator of this deadpan comic parable about greed and divisiveness is among the first settlers of a "Great Field" by the bend of a river.

Then there is a sewage treatment plant, followed by the neatly manicured mounds of a golf course, the bend of a river, a deep valley and a tangle of intersecting roads.

YARCHEN GAR, China — Even by the standards of the phenomenal sights of Tibet, Yarchen Gar is a wonder on the high plateau: thousands of ramshackle homes clustered on a remote peninsula at the bend of a river, each one the domicile of a nun who has come here to study Tibetan Buddhism.

When sediments pass a meander bend of a river channel with a pool, the migration speed of sediments decreases greatly as they enter the pool, and it then increases as they leave (Kleinhans et al. 2002); this resembles the behavior of cars entering and leaving traffic jams.

Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.

Moving to the countryside with a partner is a very different to being young, single, and LGBT at the bend of a river or in the lieu of a hill.

"A Bend in the River" is narrated by Salim, a Muslim Indian merchant who has moved to a trading town, on the bend of a great river, in a newly independent African country.

The sound came not from the weather, but from dropping feces and chopped leaves as a swarm of desert locusts steadily denuded a lush fruit grove in the bend of a dry river bed.

They were holes originally dug out of the sand along the bend of an ancient river.

Using stochastic gradient boosting (SGB), multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), and Cubist, we remotely estimate AGB of a bottomland hardwood forest on a meander bend of a dynamic lowland river.

He quoted Mark Twain's description of the riverboat captain negotiating the bends and sandbars of a river.