Sentence examples for broad waterways from inspiring English sources

He sees the world as a relief map, one defined by the sharp peaks and narrow valleys that trap populations and the open plains and broad waterways that impel and allow them to move.

He brought them to the Arghandab Valley, but instead of a broad waterway, he found a river of rocks.

In the other direction was the Canal St.-Martin, a broad waterway connecting the Seine to the countryside.

We got off just south of Alborg, a major city that straddles the Limfjord, the broad waterway that nearly severs the tip of Denmark.

The cement plant that dumps into the river looks like a toy, but the broad waterway seems turgid, as if it is cement-filled.

Pier I -- as in "eye" -- is an entirely new way to see the towering palisade skylines of New York and New Jersey and the broad waterway between them, liberated from the shoreline and unconfined by gunwales.

Just upstream of Barford bridge some quirk of geology transforms the broad waterway's stately course of wide bends and straight stretches; the Ouse goes off on a wild wiggle, as if a ballpoint pen were being scribbled back to life.

We emerged again on a suddenly much broader waterway, frozen shore to shore.

Yet more of the legacy of Shah Abbas and his successors is on view there, a series of stunning old bridges spanning the broad, calm waterway.

The government defines national parks as areas of "protected countryside that everyone can visit" but the Broads's waterways are riddled with "private" and "keep out" notices and even gates across some dykes and lakes.

The river widens here to a broad, moderately deep waterway averaging 500-1000 feet wide and reaching up to across, with depths ranging from 8-60 feet.