Sentence examples for river race from inspiring English sources

Nine million litres of angry river race past my ankles and roar over the cliff.

His boat was good enough to win the 1976 Texas Water Safari, billed as the world's toughest river race.

Rowing is pursued by the Reading Rowing Club and the Reading University Boat Club, and the Reading University Head of the River Race is held every year in February or March.

In Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes, Oriel's win in the 1842 Head of the River Race, with Oriel bumping Trinity, was re-written as Tom's college, "St Ambrose" taking first place and "Oriel" in second place.

In the Eights Week races (the annual summer Head of the River Race at Oxford), when Hichens was at Magdalen, they came third in 1928, sixth in 1929 and eighth in 1930, which was the college's lowest position in the race since 1876.

Hundreds of feet below, a river races through the canyon.

The city's current name originated with French voyageurs who likened the basaltic rocks through which the river races to flagstones (French: les dalles).

The Victorian era saw the birth of organised river racing, with the launch of the amateur long-distance championships of Great Britain, but we also we see the rise of bathing houses, floating baths and lidos for ordinary workers.

By the sixth day the rapids grow more perilous, yet two men and the formerly airsick woman take turns rising to the kayaking challenge as the river races to its confluence with the Main Salmon.

In the gutter, rivers raced along, divided into streams, formed rapids and waterfalls, diverted into lakes and ponds... Thin oil slicks slid along the gutter, silver blue, folding into paisley patterns, cardiograms, shot silk, marbled bookbindings, Art Nouveau... We saw the reflection of blue sky on the surface of the final lake, and, looking up, observed that it would be a splendid day.

But he did have one concern, and pointed to the small rivers racing along the nearby gutter.