Sentence examples for there were waterways from inspiring English sources

There were waterways everywhere.

This legacy shows in the names of towns, such as Cumberland and Durham; in their traditional music – country and bluegrass; in a certain crudity of speech (there were waterways called Tickle Cunt Branch and Fucking Creek) – and, of course, in bourbon.

In Scandinavia there are two major commercial artificial waterways: the first, the Trollhätte Canal, connects the Götaälv (river) upward from Göteborg with Lake Vänern and with the Finnish lakes and connecting canals; the second, the Saimaa Canal, in southeast Finland, connecting the vast Saimaa Lake system to the sea, was being reconstructed at the time of World War II.

And there's a waterway a few blocks from here, so you could bring in boats if you need to".

The park's lakes are connected by 750 miles of navigable streams and, where there is no waterway deep enough to float a canoe, clearly marked portages.

On a Saturday in July, when the island played host to a festival celebrating the city's waterfront and waterways, there were 7,200 visitors, about the same number of people as on a summer day at the more widely known Ellis Island.

At least 10 people were pulled out of the fast-moving waterways; there were no fatalities, authorities said.

The road is an easy pathway out of these waterways for an animal, so there is a higher possibility that they may be around them.

Television news showed flooded streets, uprooted trees and swollen waterways, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.

Monitoring had shown that so much sewerage has been dumped in this historic waterway that there were 340 faecal coliforms bacteria per 100 ml of water.

There were no such networks of navigable waterways in the Balkans as in Western Europe, and mountain ranges blocked much of the region from overland shipments.