Sentence examples for river bent from inspiring English sources

The river bent far below, and the foothills of the Andes floated on the horizon.

Up ahead, where the river bent to the left, was a doe sipping at the water's edge.

But if the Federal commander was preparing to retreat down the Peninsula, there was a compelling reason for keeping a large part of the army north of the Chickahominy: the course of the stream was nearly east and west in front of Lee's position, but below that point p164 the river bent more to the southeast and then ran almost south.

From there the army entered the Strumitsa valley and reached the vicinity of the village of Klyuch, where the river bent and approached Belasitsa and Ozgrazhden.

Across the river, the bent strata of Island Park Fault curled 1,000 feet skyward, like a petrified tidal wave.

As raw material, the threadbare lyric gave the writers little to go on besides a nameless down-on-his-luck narrator on his way to a $2,000 score; a guy named Eddie enlisted to take him through the tunnel across the river; and a bent-out-of-shape girl, Cherry, whose radio has been hocked.

Soon, he and his passenger were married and now he and his wife, Paula Vail, operate Canyon Ministries, leading river tours with a creationist bent.

The tree was magnificently bent away from the river for this reason; the wind had blown in the same direction its entire life and had made it a leaning tree.

How visited Convenient and Stop&Go when the dust was high on the roads by the river and the grass was green and bent.

"In the winter, in the days of iron cold, when everything was white under the snow, the river lay in its bed fixed and immovable as a bar of bent steel, and then at night wolves and lynxes traveled up and down it as if it had been a highway passing in front of the ranch house".

Intermittent gun battles continued until dawn, when the sun bloomed from behind a series of serrated ridgelines, and the whole wasted valley — the cattails that crowd the river's banks, the yellow pastures where ragged camels graze, the wind-bent corn against the western desert — emerged in bright relief.