Sentence examples for subterranean streams from inspiring English sources

The labourers dug through three subterranean streams, which they sealed off with bronze to construct the burial chamber.

Italy also has considerable areas in which, as a result of porous rock, the water systems run underground, forming subterranean streams, sinkholes, and lakes.

The historian Sima Qian (c. 145 c. 87 bce) wrote: The labourers dug through three subterranean streams, which they sealed off with bronze to construct the burial chamber.

In the limestone areas the characteristic landscape consists of karst formations (i.e., precipitous slopes, abrupt, protuberant mountains, caverns, and subterranean streams).

A subterranean stream of death and personal tragedy trickles around the margins of Jim Holt's new book, "Why Does the World Exist?

Alliteration didn't predominate in later metrical verse, but it is a rough current in Sir Thomas Wyatt, if you listen, and thereafter becomes a subterranean stream in English-language poetry.

On a whim Ned decides to swim home via the pools of his neighbours: "that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county".

In his mind he saw a string of swimming pools, a quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county, & he knew that he would find friends along the way.

He seemed to see, with a cartographer's eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the country.

Indeed perhaps our very houses rest over subterranean rivers, streams, maybe loughs.

This argument is based on the expectation that travel from one region to another is much faster through surface streams than through subterranean passages because open waters contain abundant food and provide direct passage, while subterranean routes have low food reserves and their passages may be maze-like.