Sentence examples for tributary with from inspiring English sources

During flood periods its waters are linked via the Mayo-Kebbi tributary with the Logone, which flows into Lake Chad.

Another kind of connection came as co-choreographer of "Tributary" with the City Ballet principal Robert LaFosse for City Ballet's salute to Dance Theater of Harlem in the spring.

Just when it looks as though we are about to be swept towards a climax, and too much might be revealed too early about what happened to Ivo's girlfriend, or what caused the rift with his friend Mal, the narrative changes course and we're plunged into yet another subplot tributary with Ivo's thoughts on the uvula, tear ducts or tonsils.

On the other level, Heineman's film contributes cogently to the blowing of the myth that the Mexican state is fighting, rather than conjoining, organised crime – so that this film is also a tributary, with a lusty current, flowing into a river of great work by Heineman's – and my – colleagues.

Syria comes next, at around 26 per cent, by virtually drying up the Yarmouk, the Jordan's main tributary, with around 70 dams; and Jordan, third at 23 per cent, thanks to the King Abdullah Canal, its own dams, and huge water subsidies for water which mean that "half the farmers in Jordan flood their fields" because there is no incentive to drip-irrigate.

In another study, they showed salmon that shoot off from the main Columbia river into a smaller tributary with half as many dams have the same survival rates as smolts that migrate along the entire length of the river, O'Dor said.

I felt strangely dislocated as I traced the blue tributaries with my finger.

Not far off are Chinatown, Governors Island, and Wall Street's narrow shadowy tributaries, with oddball shops in the eddies, glimpses of old New York.

We once thought we had found perfection, boating down one of the Amazon's tributaries with our sleeping bags spread on an empty deck.

Congress also instructed the Army to survey the Mississippi and its tributaries with an eye to assuring and improving inland navigation.

Jia films these interlocking stories and their diverse tributaries with a bare and restrained simplicity that contains his many levels of rueful outrage.