Sentence examples for sluggish river from inspiring English sources

Evenings, we walked along the low, sluggish river that cut through town.

The story unfolds slowly, deep in the jungle, by the banks of the Magdalena, a sluggish river full of crocodiles.

Whatever our differences, we agreed that the Cross-Bronx Expressway, a deep, eternally sluggish river of brake lights and diesel exhaust coursing through a waste of twisted rebar and abandoned scrap, is as gruesome a stretch of highway as exists in these parts.

"There it is," he said, sweeping his arm to take in a scene that emerges for only a few weeks each year: the shallow, sluggish river pooling behind what looked like a makeshift V-shaped dam stretching 200 feet, bank to bank.

They inhabit sluggish rivers, ponds, and lakes with soft bottoms and dense vegetation.

It was a land of sluggish rivers, lakes and extensive wetlands.

Coarse fish are those which city dwellers might hope to catch because they will tolerate pollution and sluggish rivers.

This process involves a sharp increase in the concentration of phosphorus, nitrogen, and other plant nutrients that promotes the rapid growth of algae (so-called algal blooms) in sluggish rivers and a consequent depletion of oxygen in the water.

The sluggish rivers of the bhabhar deepen in this area, their course running through a tangled mass of thick under growth.

And then you drive for lunch in Etaples, across an ugly bridge to the other side of the sluggish River Canche.

On the banks of the sluggish Savannah river towers one of the world's biggest cranes.