[
UK
/ɹˈɪvəbˌɛd/
]
[ US /ˈɹɪvɝˌbɛd/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪvɝˌbɛd/ ]
NOUN
- a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river
How To Use riverbed In A Sentence
- Rescuers found 80 bodies trapped in the hull when they salvaged the boat from the riverbed.
- No people, no houses, no cars, just a wilderness of river-gum trees lining ancient waterless riverbeds, acacias, spinifex grasses and spooky giant termite mounds.
- Leaving their overnight camp by the riverbed, they turn their sure-footed local steeds toward the steep, rocky outline of the Spur.
- He knelt down near the riverbed and put water over his face.
- From extracting gold powder from riverbeds by using mercury to the open-pit mining, man has come long way in refining and expediting the process of extraction.
- Also, as more water flows, parts of the riverbed break away.
- I perch in the middle of the bench seat in the back, my knees knocking into everyone as the road turns from deep ruts into ravaged riverbed.
- The terrain he covers will vary from sand dunes to dried up riverbeds to tarmac roads - but it will always be tough.
- They were moving away from the sea, over flat farmlands seamed with stony riverbeds.
- a traceable riverbed