Sentence examples for river built from inspiring English sources

Brownell says the river built a dam there.

On the other side are the 1960s Marina City apartments, which look like two cylindrical corn-on-the-cobs and have boat docks on the river – built by Bertrand Goldberg, who studied under Mies back in Germany.

It opened in a stately house overlooking the Congo river, built for Charles de Gaulle's exile from Nazi-occupied Paris, when equatorial Africa was the heart of free France.

The De Lamater Iron Works, between 12th and 14th Streets on the river, built the boilers and engine for the Civil War ironclad ship Monitor, which defeated the Confederate Merrimac at Hampton Roads, Va., in 1862, after nearly sinking on the way.

They decided last year to move out of their cramped one-bedroom rental in Manhattan and into a two-bedroom, two-bath rental for $2,018 a month at Hudson Park in Yonkers, in a high-rise tower on the river, built by Collins Enterprises of Stamford, Conn.

In Orleans I met Zack Taylor from the local Forest Service office, who took me down to the banks of Klamath River just below the Orleans Bridge, an unexpectedly dramatic suspension span over the river built in 1966 to weather floods that have historically surged down the river canyon in rainy years.

That expansion, even as the river builds to its expected crest in Winnipeg on Tuesday, is within a few days of completion, Canadian officials said.

The river builds with different smaller streams.

In peacetime, Corps engineers dredged inlets and rivers, built levees and dikes, maintained ports, and assisted in waterborne commerce.

Others, particularly those living on major rivers, built substantial settlements that took advantage of annual runs of salmon and other fish.

Cost, efficiency, nature and human lives never stood in the way of Soviet rulers who reversed Siberian rivers, built cities in permafrost and planted corn in virgin land often to ruinous effect.