Sentence examples for washing downstream from inspiring English sources

On Sunday, South Korea sent a message urging North Korea to prevent its land mines from washing downstream to the South, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

In late 2012 the Chinese media claimed that 300 corpses were found floating in the Yellow River near Lanzhou, the latest of roughly 10,000 victims most of them (according to the local police) suicides whose bodies have been washing downstream since the 1960s.In 2009 the World Bank put the overall cost of China's water crisis at 2.3% of GDP, mostly reflecting damage to health.

The sight was dazzling, the fast currents spinning the reflecting light as though thousands of silver pinwheels were washing downstream.

In 1896 the ferry was transferred to Jim Emett, who installed a cable across the Colorado River to reduce the risk of boats washing downstream during high water.

What is being washed downstream is topsoil.

On the river's edge, there is the deep, grumbling sound of boulders being washed downstream.

The water knocked loose a large clutch of felled trees from a nearby forest, which washed downstream and crashed into a gasoline storage tank.

A decade later scientists realized it was caused largely by agricultural nitrogen — and some urban effluent — washed downstream from farms throughout the Mississippi watershed.

She lost the stream and came to the river, which she tried to wade across but she slipped and washed downstream.

The Spolana chemical plant released a cloud of chlorine gas, and environmental activists said they feared a stockpile of mercury and toxic dioxin stored at the flooded factory could wash downstream to Germany.

The water made it difficult to establish a cause of death, and Suffolk police employed a wade-and-dive team to search for any of Gemma's property that may have washed downstream.