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river bottom

NOUN
  1. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river

How To Use river bottom In A Sentence

  • The boat jounced once off the river bottom, rocking its passengers.
  • My shin had struck a boulder on the river bottom during my spill.
  • At times of low water, for example, at a great water level difference Dh, these forces can become so strong that the pressure due to the seepage flow pushes the river bottom area at the end of the weir upwards, and the weir foundation is damaged by headward erosion. 4. Necessary proofs of stability
  • And it went past me at a vast and lumbersome gallop; but I did not see it in that moment; for I dived my head down unto the rock of the river bottom, and held downward, until that I was like to burst for sore longing of breath. The Night Land
  • Few people seem to enjoy watching other people catch fish as much as this native of Panola County and its rich Sabine River bottomland.
  • Insects have adapted to nearly every ecological niche available, from arctic to tropic and mountaintop to river bottom.
  • And it came up to the surface beneath the river and actually created a stair step in the river bottom, to where it set up waves that went coursing back upstream.
  • Sycamores naturally grow in river bottoms, and beavers use the young trees for dams and houses.
  • But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom.
  • The "motte" at which the cibolero had arrived was far apart from any of the others, and commanded a view of the river bottom on both sides for more than a mile's distance. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico
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