Sentence examples for river neighbors from inspiring English sources

In Mathare — a teeming, ethnically mixed slum where people dwell in sheet-metal shacks along the mushy banks of a rat-infested, garbage-strewn river — neighbors had turned on one another in 2007.

Fish that hung out near the lake beach were genetically distinct from their river-dwelling neighbors.

Calpurnia bravely leaves home with her little dog, Buggy-Horse, to find the secret river that her neighbor Mother Albirtha has told her about.

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt .— As soon as the news of the disaster at the Perley Farm began to spread — how the fast-rising waters of the White River had washed away nearly 200 bales of hay, flooded the farmhouse and then swept some of the cows down the river to their deaths — neighbors and strangers alike began arriving at the muddy barn here to offer help.

Withered by decades of dictatorial mismanagement and then neglect, by drought and the thirst of Iraq's neighbors, the river formed by the convergence of the Tigris and the Euphrates no longer has the strength to keep the sea at bay.

A river makes an unpredictable neighbor, as the last few months have reminded.

Those numbers prompted environmental and aesthetic concerns among city officials, river and park organizations and neighbors of the proposed plant.

Markowitz may have been inspired by his neighbors across the river: the old Parkside Correctional Facility, in Harlem, is already being turned into condos.

At the time, of course, it all seemed if not sane, then at least necessary, to divide into two warring camps, to defend yourself and to drive your neighbors across the river.

Her neighbors across the river were William and Mary Brickell, fellow early and influential pioneers.

The field leads to the river and belongs to a neighbor.