Sentence examples for sluggish stream from inspiring English sources

The title, "By a Slow River," refers literally to the sluggish stream that runs by the village.

It is a sluggish stream, now embanked throughout its course below Lincoln, and locally straightened for drainage in its upper course.

For most of its course it is a wide and sluggish stream, flowing through one of the most fertile and densely populated regions in the world.

There is a considerable expanse of lowland at the northern end, where the Victoria Nile enters as a sluggish stream in a swampy delta.

His life back then revolved around the Bronx River -- that sluggish stream which bisects lower Westchester County before it blows a watery kiss to Manhattan and ripples into the East River near Hunts Point.

How slowly it appeared to move, What a sluggish stream!

Sluggish streams and swamps ringed the town, which one Southern general called a "sickly, malarial spot fit only for alligators and snakes".

The River Severn divides the geographic county of Shropshire into the hilly southwest a series of ridges and "hogsbacks" running northeast-southwest and separated by deep valleys and an undulating drift-covered plain in the northeast, with sluggish streams and large areas of former marsh (e.g., the Wealdmoors), peat mosses, and meres (near Ellesmere).

Thirty-five million yeago ago, sluggish streams migrated laterally over its surface.

The U.S. Navy (1991) describes it as inhabiting swamps, shallow lakes and sluggish streams, but it is usually not found in swift, deep, cool water.

Deposition resumed some 35 Ma in the Oligocene epoch on a flood plain that developed in the area; sluggish streams migrated laterally over the surface, laying down cobbles, sand, and mud.