Sentence examples for booming river from inspiring English sources

Insisting that they desperately need to cut costs, postal officials have called for ending Saturday delivery, laying off 120,000 workers, and shutting rural post offices like the one in Neville, a town with barely 100 people — down from 500 when it was a booming river town in the steamboat era.

In a play O'Hara wrote with the bisexual painter Larry Rivers, Pollock swaggers into the Cedar and in a booming voice calls O'Hara and Rivers "those fags".

Ever since Katharine Hepburn declared, "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!," African river boating has been a booming industry.

Walk along the promenade and look out across the river toward the city's booming financial district, Pudong, which is packed with futuristic skyscrapers and flashy neon-lit billboards.

The long hills form a steep river valley by which this booming place is constrained.

Originally an area comprising wetlands and numerous lakes, Chennai is now a concrete jungle – the product of a rapid and chaotic development (powered in part by India's booming automotive industry) that has shrunk its three rivers and built over most lakes and swamps surrounding the city.

Its fish populations are healthier than they've been in years, boating is booming, towns that once turned their backs on the river are clogged with tourists.

The fish are more numerous than they have been in years, boating is booming, and towns that once turned their backs on the river teem with tourists.

They docked it in Morgan City, where the oil business was still booming (Latham arrived around the same time and set up shop across the river), and where Rachel could manage the business from her home office.

In the 19th century, its dairy farms provided milk for the booming metropolis to its south, but then in the 1890's nearby rivers were dammed and the original hamlet was flooded to bolster the city's water supply.

Farmers in Shanhou village say quarries using large amounts of well water have proliferated on the dry river bed in Hebei for the extraction of sand and pebbles to supply the booming construction industry.