Sentence examples for swelling river from inspiring English sources

Waccamaw Drive runs parallel to a swelling river with the same name.

Nobody drowned when an earthen dike that held back the swelling river was blasted with dynamite, engulfing the homes of 13,000 people in this one incident.

"I really didn't anticipate this," said Mr. Holloway, as he wheeled his sport utility vehicle to the edge of Highway 90, a cozy coastal road usually filled with carloads of beachgoers and casinogoers but now a steadily swelling river.

Two students have drowned while taking selfies in a swelling river in a remote part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Even as some families were allowed to return to their homes today after Saturday's storm, rescue officials evacuated about 300 more families from Byram Township, Sparta and other nearby towns, including a day camp here with 800 children, because about six dams in the complex regional system of waterways had given way, swelling rivers and streams that crisscross the lush terrain.

Officials said several dams had given way, swelling rivers and streams.

The summer monsoon reliably delivers an intense abundance of water, swelling rivers, lakes and flooding water-courses incredibly fast.

This is just rain — endless rain, filling dams far beyond their capacity, swelling rivers, drowning two young men who allegedly fled the scene of a looting.

Bangladesh is the most populous delta in Asia, made up of 80% floodplain: water is everywhere, swelling rivers, filling ponds, ditches and deep wells.

Whether faced with king tides or swelling rivers and lakes, planners in coastal and estuarine urban settings must find a way to brace against the impacts of climate change.

Most everyone here has been stunned by the ferocity of the typhoon, which dumped more than 80 inches of water in some places, swelling rivers that washed away bridges and spurring landslides that buried entire villages.