7 sentences with 'river'
Example sentences and phrases with the word river and other words derived from it.
• « The Breath was tied up with her stern to the river, and as I saw the water rushing under the hull, I became alarmed. The speed of the ebb was three times the normal rate. »
• « -Honey," I said to Dorothy, "we have to get on with our lives: up the river, across the Atlantic and back to work. »
• « On 20 August, Nenita was washing clothes in the river when people came running to tell her that policemen had come to her house looking for her. »
• « This romantic river, the Danube, flows through eight countries, passing the flame of history, as well as severe pollution, from one nation to another. »
• « The Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching 4,000 miles from its mouth in the Mediterranean to its source at Lake Victoria in Central Africa. »
• « Each year, the Spartans "declared war" on the colonists, ravaging their river valley, and part of the training of young Spartan men took place in the Krypteia, the Spartan secret police who infiltrated the icy villages to look for signs of rebellion. »
• « In the legend of Romulus and Remus, two children were born to a Latin king, but were later kidnapped and thrown into the river Tiber by the king's jealous brother. »