Sentence examples for break the river from inspiring English sources

Jessie Thomas-Blate, the coordinator of the endangered rivers list, said that one of the priority criteria for making the list was a looming decision that "could make or break" the river in the coming year.

And it broke the river, the country's spinal column, into bits.

Cons Two plants on the Hudson directly across from the town -- Glens Falls Lehigh Cement in Cementon and St. Lawrence Cement in Catskill -- break the otherwise ideal river view.

Close by, Lord Foster's future entry for the prize, a music centre designed to look like a great tidal wave about to break into the river below the Tyne Bridge (itself a great piece of Victorian design), is under construction.Neither is this a solitary oasis of northern creativity.

On that night in 1927 a levee broke and the river burst from its banks just as she burst from her mother's womb.

Back down in the valley the effects of the flood were more evident – trails scarred by the volume of water, low walls broken where the river had burst through and sodden sandbags still stacked outside doorways.

To achieve this, the effects team broke down the river into different pieces, and then repeated those pieces.

The wave breaks at the river mouth so you can rinse off in a fresh water pool with a view of light green pyramid-shaped mountains in the valley.

The Brazilians broke through the river defenses at Curupaity during daylight on 15 August 1867 with Barroso, Tamanadaré, and eight other ironclads.

A dam broke along the river, flooding the town of Chokwe in the middle of the night and trapping several unprepared residents.

A dam broke along the river, flooding the town of Chokwe in the middle of the night and trapping several unprepared residents; this accounted for nearly half of the death toll.