Sentence examples for surface of a river from inspiring English sources

Foam on the surface of a river or stream is yet another sign that barometric pressure is falling, says Freier.

Certain details reappear, like objects floating to the surface of a river: a dog chewing its tail, a bunch of bananas.

"It's like looking at the surface of a river," the French composer Éliane Radigue said of her music in a short 2009 video portrait produced by the Austrian Institute for Media Archaeology.

In this case, a localized disturbance on the surface of a river or canal, which is guided by the banks in such a way that it can propagate in one direction only, is liable to spread as it propagates.

Skittering a fly will not only work on trout, but also on bass and other sunfish when they are active and chasing insects on the surface of a river or lake.

The interdisciplinary art collective projected the stages of a plant's life and death over the surface of a running river valley located under a waterfall near the Shirakawa Bridge.

Doubters, listen: if she can appear at an underpass in Chicago, if she can appear in the bruise on a woman's thigh at an E.R. in El Paso, then she can appear in a whirlpool of diammonium phosphate, spinning on the surface of an unnamed river in Afghanistan.

Then there's the Russian-made IL-76, a military transport that has been modified for waterbombing, and the Bombardier 415, a Canadian flying boat that scoops up water as it skims the surface of a lake or river.

Such a fountain adds atmospheric oxygen to the water, similar to what happens when wind-driven waves churn the surface of a lake, or a river tumbles through precipitous rapids.

Myriad reflected splotches of color coat the surface of the river, like a vividly colored array of water lilies.

Its name means "Tisza Flower", and it blossoms for just a couple of hours on just a couple of afternoons in June, when the surface of the river explodes into a living carpet of mating mayfly.