Sentence examples for convergence of rivers from inspiring English sources
In a retro age of brick and iron, like Pittsburgh's PNC Park, overlooking the convergence of rivers and the city's skyline, the main architectural elements in Oakland are concrete and chain link.
According to the Lonely Planet, the country of Suriname is best described as a "warm, dense convergence of rivers that thumps with the lively rhythm of ethnic diversity".
On a circular hill, near the convergence of three rivers, a fairy who'd wept a river of tears was comforted by a dragon prince.
Founded as Wadsworth in 1906, it was renamed Riverton because of its location near the convergence of four rivers.
Leading a band he calls Triveni, after a Sanskrit word describing a convergence of three rivers, he improvised with a steady exhalation of phrases but also a vital undertow of tension.
Although the city sits at the convergence of two rivers, the tall-grass/shrub and water-related birds associated with riparian systems were poorly represented.
Eastwards over the high Dochu La pass, sitting at the convergence of two rivers fed by meltwater from glaciers, is the beautiful Punakha Dzong, 'the palace of great happiness' where wild bees make their nests in the rafters and kings have their coronations.
(1) Donghekou landslide The Donghekou landslide located in Qingchuan County, near the northeastern end of the Yingxiu-Beichuan fault, killed 780 people and blocked the convergence of the Qingzhujiang river and the Hongshi river, forming the Donghekou landslide dam and two barrier lakes (Fig. 7a-d).
In Aloe Plaza stands Swedish sculptor Carl Milles's fountain symbolizing the convergence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
Down the road from Fort Yates is the town of Cannonball, named for the large round stones polished by the whirlpool that marked the convergence of the two rivers, just outside the Oceti Sakowin camp.
They traveled along what is now known as the Ponca Trail of Tears, finally stopping at the convergence of the Salt Fork and Arkansas rivers in Oklahoma.
