Sentence examples for widening river from inspiring English sources

The eight-mile ride, she said in an e-mail message, takes you "past sheep grazing, open fields, the widening river".

Instead, the Dutch have spent the past decade deepening and widening rivers, creating new side canals that provide extra capacity, and setting aside land as dedicated flood plains.

Located at the first ford above the river estuary, the Old Town of Bremen grew on a sand dune, sited above flood level on the Weser spillway, the glacially widened river channel.

We illustrate this through a case study of a river in Jakarta, Indonesia, where plans call for widening the river channel, stabilizing the banks with concrete, and restricting access to the river.

So in the next decade, the Army Corps of Engineers moved to control flooding by straightening and widening the river.

They looked at dredging and widening the river, digging tunnels, turning an Interstate highway into an open viaduct during floods, or creating water storage areas.

He thinks of brooks becoming streams, streams widening into rivers, flowing into the sea.

It is apparently "specifically designed to welcome the sunlight in and widen the river views out".

Workmen carefully damage the ruins to enhance the picturesque; a landscape architect installs hills and widens the river.

Officials say that over the next three years they plan to spend $50 million more to widen the river banks to make way for more commercial development.

Eighteen thousand years ago walls of water known as the Missoula Floods deepened and widened the river, which is now up to 8 miles wide and 100 feet deep.