Sentence examples for river swept from inspiring English sources

The following year, when much of Poland was hit by floods, the Słopniczanka river swept away the planks.

Then the river swept around a wide corner and a rapid – bigger and angrier than our earlier conquest – came into view.

The village of Braithwaite in Cumbria was left isolated after the flooded river swept away the main bridge connecting it to the rest of the county.

The village of Braithwaite was left "isolated" after the flooded river swept away the main bridge connecting it to the rest of the county.

In the days after the river swept over Evans, dazed residents wandered through the Eastwood Village mobile home park, slogging through pools of water blackened with sewage toward columns of homes left twisted by floodwaters and debris.

While a bus floated down the main street, and the river swept away sheets of tarmac (a witness said they looked like sharks' fins) the town hall became the hub of a fight back.

Mr. Rivers swept through his repertory like an articulate whirlwind.

Swollen rivers swept away three farmers in Hualien County, who were later rescued, and killed two sisters in Pingtung County underneath the Sandimen Bridge.

We learn to "peel out" into rapids by holding a boat edge up into the current and letting the river sweep us down stream.

From the 1850s to 1874 when the river was swept clean of all man-made structures by a great hurricane small steamboats navigated the lower Rio Grande upstream to Rio Grande City and even to Roma when the river was high.

A7 At Least 9 Drown in Mexico A rapid river current swept away 15 members of a Mexican religious group in western Mexico, drowning at least 9, a state civil protection official said.