Sentence examples for river splitting from inspiring English sources

While the results suggest there is something in the distinctly segregating effect of a river splitting a city into two parts that leads to some sort of compensation in the network as a whole, the reasons why this is and the processes leading to it remain to be established.

Abadam is located on the Niger-Nigeria border, with a river splitting the town in two halves.

Ten miles (16 km) from the Pacific, the river splits to flow around Inch Clutha Island and enters the ocean by two mouths.

He's managed to stop always going wrong in the same place, where the river splits towards the sea, and he's found his home.

Near Al-Hindiyyah the river splits into two branches, Al-Ḥillah and Al-Hindiyyah, each of which, over the centuries, alternately has carried the main flow of the river.

The border was originally determined by the Cañas-Jerez Treaty of Limits in 1858.The boundary follows the northern branch as the river splits into two, the southern branch is called the Colorado river.

At the point where the Sekong river splits off from the Mekong stands the unkempt town of Stung Treng, where I found the Golden River hotel, which proudly boasts the only elevator in the whole of north-east Cambodia.

The African country is unnamed, but that it is the Gambia is evident from various clues in the text ("the river split this finger of land throughout its length") as well as a reference in the acknowledgments.

As the river split around an island, Hyer instructed my buddy Jeff and me to head quietly out on our own, through the golden reeds on the far side.

The river splits into two channels here, and the bridge spans both.

Near its mouth north of downtown Portland, the river splits into two channels that flow around Sauvie Island.