6 sentences with 'basin'
Example sentences and phrases with the word basin and other words derived from it.
• « All the world's mountain ranges have large deposits of hardened snow, and when this hardened snow finds a passage, it overcomes the edge of the basin and, with astonishing slowness, begins to descend. A glacier is born. »
• « Among the tribes of the western Amazon basin and coastal populations of Colombia and Ecuador, the number one hallucinogen is ayahuasca, yajé or caapi, a drink made from vines of the genus banisteriopsis. It is used in religious ceremonies for divination, medicinal cures and witchcraft. »
• « More than half of Catalonia's inhabitants live in and around Barcelona. Barcelona is the largest city in the Mediterranean and the second largest port in the Mediterranean basin. »
• « For example, the Niger River basin supplied gold to Berber and Arab traders from west of the Nile Valley, who brought cloth, weapons and manufactured goods into the interior. »