Sentence examples for shallower river from inspiring English sources

The Thames was once a much broader, shallower river with extensive marshlands; at high tide, its shores reached five times their present width.

The problem can be traced to shortages of rain and snowpack, which lead to shallower rivers and reservoirs, which result in less pressure to speed the water along.

This slow movement of a broad, shallow river is known as sheetflow, and gives the Everglades its nickname, River of Grass.

The shallow river, as yellow as lemon rind, lay flaccid between denuded banks.

Odeceixe beach is breathtaking: a broad expanse of sand with a shallow river running through it (ideal for young children).

To put it another way, the United States's buffer zone from the eager masses is a shallow river.

The terrain consists of shallow river valleys draining northward toward the Rhine and separated by ridges trending northwest to southeast.

The statuesque gray, red-capped birds were waking: hopping, bobbing and stretching on the sandbars and in the shallow river.

Mr. Ahad, who now lives in New York City, also took a picture of two boys standing in a shallow river bed.

Below, at the floor of the canyon, a shallow river, barely inches deep, rushed across a bed of stones.

As a youngster waded into the shallow river not much past his knees, he threw out a tennis ball to help measure how fast the river flows.