How To Use Riverbed In A Sentence
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Rescuers found 80 bodies trapped in the hull when they salvaged the boat from the riverbed.
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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.
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Leaving their overnight camp by the riverbed, they turn their sure-footed local steeds toward the steep, rocky outline of the Spur.
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He knelt down near the riverbed and put water over his face.
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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.
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Also, as more water flows, parts of the riverbed break away.
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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.
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The terrain he covers will vary from sand dunes to dried up riverbeds to tarmac roads - but it will always be tough.
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They were moving away from the sea, over flat farmlands seamed with stony riverbeds.
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a traceable riverbed
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Savills International and Aylesford Indigenous materials were used during construction wherever possible, including rock and shingle from the local riverbeds and aggregate for the concrete during building.
Luxury Eco-Villas
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He had to keep his eye on tankers, cargo vessels and little sampans while keeping in mind he had just four meters of water, about 13 feet, between ship bottom and riverbed.
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They followed riverbeds and paths cut through the mountainous terrain for the Indonesian army.
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In severe drought years some reaches of the riverbed dried up completely, resulting in lasting habitat damage.
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We are presented with abstract patterns of black and gray with flashes of white that only with time begin to coalesce into an image of water rippling over well-worn rocks on the riverbed.
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For example, about 80 percent of the world's tin deposits occur as unconsolidated placer deposits in riverbeds and on the seafloor.
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Whether it is a streak of water flowing down a dry riverbed or a cast shadow disrupting the almost monochrome field is unclear.
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The water that flows over the cascading riverbeds here appears dark copper because the earth is filled with iron.
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Corrupt authorities also gave permits for shoddy housing and other construction in the riverbed, enriching individual contractors at the expense of public safety.
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With a pick and shovel, and a pan to wash gravel dug from the riverbed, a prospector with no previous experience might gain more in one day than a skilled mechanic earned in a month.
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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.
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The dry riverbed finds no thanks for its past.
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The Friant Dam, which diverts the river by canal to Kern County, left the riverbed dry.
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In the riverbed were about a dozen or so articles, mostly fairly expensive power tools, and several toolboxes, all presumably stolen a short while earlier.
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As a result, longboats which could once take up to eight tourists were being forced to take only 4-5 passengers to prevent the boats scraping against the riverbed.
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On top of this old riverbed deposit, fine overbank deposits accumulated in later periods.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Geomorphology Report 1
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The dry riverbed finds no thanks for its past.
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Manmade obstacles of wood, rock, and water crisscrossed the riverbed and climbed the hills.
REMEMBER SUMMER
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Because shadows on the riverbed can disrupt underwater ecology, the gangways and above-surface portions of the pool wall may be made of Plexiglas.
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But as on other glaciated volcanoes, Rainier's water transports so much dirt and rock that its riverbeds rise over time, or aggrade, with the tons of debris that gradually get driven downstream.
Undefined
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We have to find its fresh tracks in the area and for that we started walking and climbing hills and riverbeds.
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Those riverbeds could snap an axle as crisply as the way that Zervos snapped his fingers when he danced.
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You'll pedal along dry riverbeds, slickrock, and narrow jeep tracks en route to each day's destination - luxe campsites or charming village inns.
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The protection was needed only during the time the caisson was afloat and before it was entirely submerged below the riverbed, where the sea worm, the teredo, never penetrates.
The Great Bridge
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Mud was supposed to be a sovereign remedy for a beesting, but all the mud in the riverbed wouldn't have been enough to draw the poison from Cormo's stings when there were this many of them.
Tran Siberian
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Having made good progress today, we have time to stroll to the bank of an ancient dried riverbed to enjoy a pre-supper sundowner as we watch the reddening sun light up the sky.
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He hauled himself back aboard and pulled the javelin out of the riverbed, allowing the vessel to float free again.
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The two riders hauled their animals to a halt at the very edge of the riverbed, smelling the carnage before they saw it: a ripe stench hanging on the breeze.
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The dry riverbed finds no thanks for its past.
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Once they receive word that the river has dried, they head out to the riverbed and scoop minnows out of isolated pools.
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The wetlands, which consist of riverbeds, alluvial flats, flood-plains, tributary debouchments and lakes, are home to rich vegetation and wildlife, including 228 species of birds.
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It is like the dry husks of seeds or the even drier riverbed.
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Beyond a stubbled field was the vast riverbed; then stark, pale, folded mountains.
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Once a year, like clockwork, the Old Delhi dam is opened, flooding the dry riverbeds.
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A little later he devised a riverboat which could propel itself against a current by using 'legs' that reached the riverbed, as well as the more conventional paddles.
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I'd never admit it, but I knew that the desert hid old riverbeds that could quickly flood in such a downpour, so it was quite stupid that I was intending to go there.
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Once they launched their rocket and gave away their position in the dark, dried-up riverbed, they were exposed to a merciless rain of machine gun fire, mortar bombs and claymore mines.
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The left bank and riverbed water retaining dam of Kangyang hydropower station is a dam with inclined loam core.
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For example, the endemic Cinderella waxbill (Estrilda thomensis, LR) is restricted to the Kunene Riverbed.
Kaokoveld desert
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Searching for the source, Joanna spotted a young woman sitting on a tumbled boulder in the middle of the sandy, bone-dry riverbed.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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In fact, one of my first solo four-wheel lock excursions was taking a Montero through a dry riverbed which ran through Joshua Tree (Google it) for about 20 miles or so and provided just about every off-road challenge and escapade possible for dirt rookies and veterans alike.
Steve Parker: Mitsubishi's 2010 Outlander Off-Roader a Serious Vehicle
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Despite the flimsiness of their tent, the Jouberts say they've never been attacked by lions, and only once by a thirsty elephant who tried to steal their water, dragging their accommodations, apparently while they were outside, into a dry riverbed.
Directing Traffic on Safari
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I thought I wanted a dark green but then saw a slab of streakily wavering, striated peach and grey and umber that resembled ancient dry riverbeds seen from the air.
Bird Cloud
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It teemed rain from once we set foot on the trail, the underfoot conditions were such that it was like wading through a soft riverbed, it was blowing a gale in the valleys and a hurricane up top.
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The grave generally is located in a riverbed or somewhere deep in the forest.
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Without even noticing the rumble strips, she slammed into a bridge abutment and rolled over several times into a dry riverbed.
Fatal Error
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Colorful carmine bee - eaters up a breeding a dried - up, sandy riverbed in Zakouma National Park, Chad.
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The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed
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Her face stiffens with the effort of indifference, lacquers over, smooth as riverbed sand.
An Ugly Man
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Clive blocked off the end of the reedbed, and Wayne, who has a wife and two children, borrowed ammunition from Clive and headed back into the riverbed.
The Wire: David Petzal Tracks a Wounded Cape Buffalo
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Sean stepped on a shard of glass that was sticking up from the riverbed.
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The scene was a mishmash of beautiful country and old rusted buildings, stretches of lush green grass and strips of dried out riverbeds.
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For the adventurous, the slope steepens at the end of the wall, descending to 40m or more and the bottom of the old riverbed.
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Rutted tracks or dry riverbeds constitute the only roads in much of rural Afghanistan.
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Colorful carmine bee - eaters up a breeding a dried - up, sandy riverbed in Zakouma National Park, Chad.
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We assume that in the natural river system the riverbed was in the bedrock and that most of the sediments eroded from this subbasin, were transported downvalley.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Geomorphological Survey Report 2
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They can be seen from the road, but it is best to take the bush walk to the riverbed to appreciate them fully.
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The roof gives one the sensation of sitting in a dry riverbed or mountain scree slope, particularly because it lacks containing barriers.
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The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
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He presented pictures of sun-baked riverbeds and dried-up wells at the seminar, including one of a man straddling cracks in a dry riverbed.
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From the skies, Tomás had viewed where the range valleyed, knew the location of the dry riverbed where they could cross and perch themselves in a cave until nightfall.
Their Dogs Came With Them
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I sortie out to the riverbed and the sentries, who stand like dull rods in the wind.
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Local people cultivate tapioca, rice and vegetables on the heavily silted riverbed.
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Manmade obstacles of wood, rock, and water crisscrossed the riverbed and climbed the hills.
REMEMBER SUMMER
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River section analysis is the foundation of riverbed evolution analysis.
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His boots tell the tale of countless treks up and down the sunbaked gravel and silt of the Gila's riverbed.
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The dagger spun away in a glitter of moonlight on metal to clatter on riverbed rock.
