Sentence examples for creeks from inspiring English sources

I floated silently past all kinds of amazing riverside homes – old manor houses, tiny cottages, boathouses and mysterious creeks, and ogled, like a particularly inquisitive fish, at the secret riches of waterside life.

"Now we say we want our person to be at the top, otherwise we will return to the creeks, and what Nigeria saw before will be child's play".

His Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force pushed oil prices to record highs in 2004 with attacks and threats against production in the delta's swampy creeks.

The area is surrounded by creeks, marshes and reed beds where you can have fun bird-watching or fishing for crabs before enjoying a warming pint by the fire in the Lord Nelson.

It is working to restore old creeks to provide additional storm water storage.

Admitting that he'd "done time for flogging the fuck out of some coons," he insisted that "a lot of my friends are Aboriginal," before adding, "go and see the fucking coon camps, the coon creeks… they couldn't invent the fucking wheel".

"For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria's wealth comes from here," said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.

So the grand total may exceed 15,000.No one knows how many militants are still in the creeks but Nigerian officials optimistically claim that these numbers mean "the end of the insurgency".

Men who followed the army round the rivers and creeks weeks later picking up bodies counted more than 300 Muslim dead who were considered identifiable.

But years of neglect have left the armed forces with only a few boats to patrol the delta's vast network of swamps and creeks.

These are supposed to spend the money on the wretched people who live in deep poverty in the swamps and creeks of the Delta.