Sentence examples for feet downstream from inspiring English sources

Emboldened by the gathering dusk, the bank feeder dropped a few feet downstream, into water that barely covered its back.

A few miles away in Falls Township, Pa., houses were upended, lifted off their foundations and carried a few hundred feet downstream.

"It's so awesome, you know — and it's mine!" A few feet downstream, Chuck Dishian, an audiovisual technician at the museum, perched on a milk crate that he'd brought from home.

Anyone truly determined to cross the Rio Grande in a vehicle need only move a few hundred feet downstream from the closed bridge to the Tom Heath crossing, a rock ledge spanning the river that over the centuries has been used by pioneer wagons and cattle herds.

Drivers from Nevada will now have the choice of staying on U.S. 93 and going directly into the dam, as they do now, or hopping on another road that would lead them to the bypass bridge and zip them 500 feet downstream and into Arizona.

The engine is measured by an IR camera immersed in the hot exhaust gases 35 feet downstream from the on-engine axis view.

The pressure of the flood on the Sonestown Covered Bridge moved the center of the structure almost 1 foot downstream.

A few of our group did take a dunking, falling from the paddle raft and the single-person kayaks, but each swimmer got their feet pointed downstream and their life vests did their jobs – and they all got pulled back into the boats, thoroughly drenched, but usually grinning.

One foot is upstream from the Manhattan Bridge and the other foot is downstream from the Williamsburg Bridge, and he is reaching over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to plant a yellow flag at the intersection of Pierrepont Street and Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights.

I could lie on a table during a bone scan and yet slip into the river where waterlilies floated downstream, feet sinking into the soft mud.

At Krasnoyarsk the plane rises 330 feet from the downstream water level of the Yenisey River to surmount the hydroelectric dam; on top of the dam the caisson moves on to a turntable, where it is rotated through 38° before passing to a second plane running down to the water level impounded upstream of the dam.