Sentence examples for turning rivers from inspiring English sources

The monsoon, he pointed out, would soon start in East Pakistan, turning rivers into oceans.

The relentless sun sears the parched red soil, turning rivers into dry sand and leaving thorn trees, withered cactuses and weary refugees struggling to survive.

About 10 inches of rain fell in a few hours, turning rivers on this mountainous island into torrents and hillsides into deadly mudslides.

In fact for years we have damaged the systems that sustain us under the illusion that we are keeping prices down, through intensive farming, drainage of bogs, clearing forests and turning rivers into canals.

It is basically in the engineering and construction business, building levees to control floods, turning rivers into canals, dredging harbors, cleaning up nuclear waste sites, as well as repairing and managing federal dams that generate one-fourth of the nation's hydroelectric power.

These visionaries have repurposed all manner of neglected buildings, turning river piers, churches, warehouses and factories into handsome dining spots.

Here the view swept far around a long continuation of the cliff that enclosed a wide swath of water made by a sharply turning river bend.

The swift inundation of water has turned rivers, bayous and streams into lakes — including those that run through the city of Houston itself.

In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, rural people are losing ground as higher sea levels turn rivers too salty to grow rice.

Within the next century, the salt could turn rivers and lakes in the northeastern U.S. toxic, rendering the water unfit for drinking and making it uninhabitable for freshwater fish and plant life, say researchers.

Wet weather turned rivers into torrents, approaches to streams into bogs, and worn paths into morasses.