Sentence examples for enormous river from inspiring English sources

The west coast Canadian province got the "British" bit of its name from Queen Victoria and the "Columbia" part from its enormous river honouring the Genovese explorer.

So they sailed a boat down an enormous river, got quite lost, "and there wasn't a phone charger between 10 of us, it was desperate times," he laughs.

When they came to the nearby stream of Kusha to take the horses across, it appeared to them like an enormous river.

An enormous river of incredible, diverse talent enters one end of the pipeline and barely a trickle emerges from the other end.

I can't compete with Egypt, which has a huge chunk of the world's history on and below its surface, and an enormous river running through it, but I can examine and improve my gifts.

Peixaria Popular, a small restaurant in the centre of the city serves fish from the region's enormous rivers.

Like an engineer accounting for a skyscraper swaying in the wind, Madagascar's Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) spins enormous, river-spanning webs that stretch and contract as the trees to which they're anchored bend this way and that.

Way, way off in the distance on the southern side, miles and miles away, you can see these enormous, sharp river bluffs.

Over 120 people died and six million were displaced as the enormous Brahmaputra river and its tributaries burst their banks, destroying bamboo homes, flooding thousands of acres of crops and triggering deadly landslides.

The show's director implored: "Big smiles!" Minutes later, the roar of a speedboat signaled the arrival of 10 "pirates" who fanned out across the river, enormous sprays of water unfurling at their backs.

Both take in enormous volumes of river water -- a combined 2.5 billion gallons a day, or more than twice the average daily water consumption of all of New York City -- and use it to create steam for turbines and to cool the reactors.