Sentence examples for the river shrinks from inspiring English sources

The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees.

Oenopides of Chios (flourished c. 475 bce) thought that heat stored in the ground during the winter dries up the underground veins of water so that the river shrinks.

Every winter, along with the other seasonal changes, the river shrank.

The river, shrunk by the summer's drought, has fallen to levels near the records set in 1988, putting a squeeze on river navigation that has required barge operators to run fewer barges at a time and to load them more lightly.

In the dry season, he said, when the rivers shrink to a trickle, it is possible to see huge groups of animals congregating by the isolated sources of water.

The dry season also causes the larger rivers shrink in size, exposing waterfalls and sandbars.

And along the river, the landscape shrinks.

But that industrialization also brought pollution, and when the manufacturing sector started to wither, the river valley's population shrank and became poorer.

The wall would cut people off from their own property, cede the river to Mexico, and shrink the size of Texas.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development has estimated that the Jordan river may shrink by 80% by 2100 and that ground water supplies will deteriorate further as demand increases.

In Panama, famous for its tropical downpours, the big river Chagres shrank almost to a brook.