Sentence examples for huge river from inspiring English sources

He turned east and found the mouth of a huge river — the Congo.

After first trying the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, they turned north, to the huge river whose mouth Giovanni da Verrazano described in 1524.

Not far from Swiss Camp, there is a huge river of ice known as the Jakobshavn Isbrae, which probably was the source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic.

Dr. Francis, of Rutgers, has presented evidence that this is affecting the jet stream, the huge river of air that circles the Northern Hemisphere in a loopy, meandering fashion.

With visibility at just a few metres, and with the sound of a huge river rushing in the steep valley below, progress is reduced to a crawl.There are excuses for the poor condition of the road.

This, for example, came up while I was writing about the Atchafalaya, the huge river swamp in southern Louisiana, and how it looked from a small plane in the air.

Consider, too, the huge river-diversion programs under consideration in China and India, which see them as part of a national strategy for transferring water from surplus to deficit areas.

Yet without the spur or at least the threat of private competition, local monopoly utilities will remain immune to reform.Dams will cause more argument than ever, with China's Three Gorges dam filling up in 2004 and both China and India embarking on huge river-diversion projects.

It was all savanna, bush, deep forests, huge rivers, which you cross on these funny little pontoon ferries.

It is anoxic below the surface, which is less saline than regular ocean water because of the huge rivers that pour into it (Danube, Dnepr, Don).

A second uplift occurred 60 million to 75 million years ago, producing huge rivers that eventually flowed to the west and collected in enormous inland lakes.