How To Use Tributary In A Sentence

Fossils of a previously unknown species, which is believed to have belonged to the herbivorous sauropod diplodocus family, were found along the banks of a tributary of the Amazon river in the northern state of Maranhao.
Fieldwork was planned to coincide with high tides, which allowed the johnboat to travel closer to the marsh edge and further up tributary creeks.
Over the divide at the head of this creek is a tributary of the Big Windy. THE END OF THE STORY
Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
The environment is interpreted as a dominantly subaqueous delta top, similar to the modern Mississippi but with meandering distributary channels.

Aerial surveys revealed that a small Rhine tributary had once carved an island here, and the silted channel was promptly dredged.
Floodwater from this growing lake moved up tributary rivers.
The site was selected, in part, because of the deeply incised valley through which the Cohoke Creek, a tributary of the Pamunkey River, flows.
This is a very pleasant descent down a tributary valley with the distinctive spur known as the Tongue prominent on the opposite side of the stream.
The tributary debouched into the big river
The local tributary rulers were deposed because they refused to pay their dues, and the ruler of Gilan was making overtures to the Ottomans.
A river, about846 km( 526 mi) long, of southeast Australia flowing generally northwest to a tributary of the Darling River.
RESULTS The ordinary styles of respiratory insufficiency which is caused by brain trauma are respiratory inhibition, neurogenic pneumonedema, impedient distributary and pulmonary infection.
They were nostalgic, so to say, about the trials and tribulations they underwent to realise their dream of a bridge across the tributary of the Periyar at Manjummel.
The reductions in sediment discharge, as a consequence of damming, have caused a major retreat of the (formerly prograding) distributary mouths at Damietta and Rosetta where coastal defences have been installed in an attempt to arrest the retreat. Northern Africa and coastal and marine environments
The environment is interpreted as a dominantly subaqueous delta top, similar to the modern Mississippi but with meandering distributary channels.
Strongly frictional effluent derived from a distributary channel mouth of the fan delta was probably responsible for repeated incision and fill on the fan delta slope.
Hudson River tributaries are tidal up to the first natural barrier or dam and these tidal tributary mouths have high biological diversity.
I also think it may have been a contributary cause of his death aged only 54. Feeling Unwell
Miller Beck, a small tributary of the River Leven near Newby Bridge, has become the latest area to have a section cordoned off to protect the habitat of migratory fish from thirsty cattle.
From the mouth of the Spokane the Columbia, now out of the woods, flows to the westward with a broad, stately current for a hundred and twenty miles to receive the Okinagan, a large, generous tributary a hundred and sixty miles long, coming from the north and drawing some of its waters from the Cascade Range. Steep Trails
Much can be learned about the course of the great stream of evolution from domestication, its minor tributary.
A suspicion arises, on contemplating some of these apparent discrepancies, that the prevailing conditions of corrasion are not what they were at some earlier period, when they were such that it was rendered more rapid and violent; that there was perhaps an epoch when these deep-cut tributary canyons carried perennial streams, and when the volume of the Colorado itself was many times greater, possessing a multiplied corrasive power, while the adjacent areas were about as arid as now. The Romance of the Colorado River
A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills. Castle Dangerous
We had beached along a spot in the Nile heavy with papyri, a small tributary.
BOBBER RIG When you're fishing near a prominent obstruction, around the mouth of atributary, or over weeds, using a bobber is a good approach (you want it as small as possible to minimize the resistance when a pike takes the bait and runs). A Basic Guide to Catching Northern Pike
The site is close to a tributary of the Slaney river from which water supplies for Carlow and Wexford are drawn.
Whatever the reason for the call, whatever the location, the idea that we should construct a dam across the Delaware River, or any tributary, is a bad one, a destructive one.
Addington is the larger of two adjacent long barrows overlooking a tributary of the Medway.
Area: total: 20.327 million sq km note: includes Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies Southern Ocean
The Tonga use soil moisture from flooding in three distinct locations as they are exposed by dropping floodwaters: kalonga, small pockets of moist tributary stream-beds; kuti, on the first river terrace; and jelele, on the riverbank itself. 5. How plants live and grow
Big northern pike randomly sampled from a tributary of the lower Yukon River were found with average mercury levels of 1.5 ppm. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
The goal is to stir up and redistribute sediment from tributary rivers downstream from the dam to enlarge existing beaches and sandbars, create new ones, and distribute sediment into drainage channels.
Since it was the Stoics who, in antiquity, developed a sentence logic, by contrast with Aristotle's term logic, it would appear that Boethius's treatise on hypothetical syllogisms is the tributary of Stoic logic.
The local tributary rulers were deposed because they refused to pay their dues, and the ruler of Gilan was making overtures to the Ottomans.
The small, brilliantly colored vermilion darter, a fish found only in a single tributary in Alabama, is nearing extinction because of habitat destruction and a decline in water quality.
The Big Hole River is the westernmost tributary stream in the Missouri river system.
Englander ( "Bostonian"), and the French Canadian traders at various rendezvous on Lake Winnipeg and its tributary lakes and rivers. Pioneers in Canada
a tributary colony
To say that his policies and attitude have been a significant contributary factor however, is surely indisputable. Archive 2006-07-01
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.
From its source, the river first flows southeast to Voronezh, then southwest to its mouth. The main city on the river is Rostov on Don, its main tributary the Donets.
Southern Oceantotal: 20.327 million sq km note: includes Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies Area
At the invitation of the landowner, and following a consultation with the Environment Agency, the organisation took on the task of reconnecting the tributary to its parent river.
While York appeared to have escaped any major flooding, a severe flood warning was put in place on the River Ure at Boroughbridge as waters from its tributary, the River Tutt, starting rising.
So "exactor," in Isa 60: 17, namely, one who exacts the tribute from the nations made tributary to Judah [Ludovicus De Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Tacitus says that Augustus had a memoir, written in his own hand, which contained the revenues of the empire, the fleets and contributary kingdoms. A Philosophical Dictionary
She'd noticed some liver spots on his cheeks, forehead and hands in the last few years, deep lines like streams cascading down his face, with others forming, branching off a main tributary.
The Murrumbidgee is a big tributary of the Murray. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
My conductor, however, informed me, that to get through this deep and important stream, and to clear all its tributary dependencies, the general pass from the Highlands to the southward lay by what was called the Fords of Frew, at all times deep and difficult of passage, and often altogether unfordable. Rob Roy
From its source, the river first flows southeast to Voronezh, then southwest to its mouth. The main city on the river is Rostov on Don, its main tributary the Donets.
Muddy floodwaters rise and spread over deltaic wetlands from main and so-called distributary channels, transporting mass and energy laterally across the delta, in essence nourishing the landscape. Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The conglomerate was deposited in tributary stream channels, and the pebbles consist almost entirely of quartz-feldspar phenocrystic rhyolite.
By abolishing official charity and substituting a non-contributary system of old age pensions, a general system of insurance by the State of all its members against unemployment and invalidism ... Becoming a Socialist Nation | Heretical Ideas Magazine
They were organized around an exporting economy, and as a result, the major cities dwarfed other towns within the tributary area.
This dependency is enshrined in the word sadaejuui, or flunkeyism, which defined the tributary relationship that once bound Korea to China and which serves today as the antonym to juche, or self-reliance, the nominal philosophy that governs North Korea. John Feffer: Obama: Engage North Korea Now (But Don't Tell Anyone)
The spruit is considered by some to be the longest tributary of the Limpopo, usually the criterion for sourcing and naming a river.
EVE looked up anxiously as Reno rode back in from his short exploration of the tributary canyon. ONLY YOU
Flows may have been storm-triggered or represent hyperpycnal underflows sourced from deltaic distributary channels, indicating the proximity of the coastline.
But the Man of Sorrows motif represents no slight and inconsiderable tributary of the mainstream, and if the new exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art can draw our attention to that fact, it will have served its purpose well. The Man of Sorrows Motif Over Time
A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills. Castle Dangerous
The Oise is the first really great commercial tributary of the Seine. The Automobilist Abroad
Nearby, a smaller lake was created by damming a tributary creek.
The gilded leaves of magnolia, sweet chestnut and tulip trees gleam within Cotehele's demesne and, above the millstream tributary, can be seen the yellow tops of larch, planted 30 years ago. Country diary: Tamar Valley
In fact, the world would probably have been divided between endlessly warring absolutist and tributary states without even the possibility of escape that capitalism provides.
Wide dispersion of the data suggests diverging distributary channels.
In places, where low-hanging willows crowd either bank, we could almost be nosing upstream along a tributary of the Amazon, so enclosed is the water.
From these mountains and hills a vast number of streams and brattling brooks discharge themselves into the lake; its principal tributary however, is the Endric, which flows into the south-east corner of the lake.
The root cause is still open to debate although I'm inclined to accept the view that the rise of our Industrial society is a significant contributary factor. Green Taxes
The stream on which Carpentaria Downs station is situated was supposed to be the "Lynd" of Leichhardt and was so called and known; but as this was found to be an error, and that it was a tributary of the Gilbert, it will be distinguished by the name it subsequently received, the Einasleih. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
I stayed at the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, an enclave of 15 luxurious guest tents situated in a tall bamboo grove along the silty Ruak River, a Mekong tributary. A Very Big Game
Very simply: None of the four firms involved in this tributary value stream for a jet engine—the melter, the forger, the machiner, and the final assembler—had ever fully explained its activities to the other three. Lean Thinking
Although the Niger presents a zoogeographic barrier to some degree, the situation in reality is far more complex since the narrower distributary delta channels allow species to move from one side of the Niger River to the other. Niger Delta swamp forests
By around 5,000 BC a focus had developed at the confluence of the Nene and a small tributary, where people stopped to light fires, knap flint, and perform domestic tasks.
The distributary channels and alluvial fans at the mouths of the Flinders, Mitchell, Gilbert, Leichardt, McArthur, and Roper Rivers have extended the seaward edge of the plains. Carpentaria tropical savanna
After his Panel hearing, he led them to a muddy burn, a tributary of the Clyde, that ran through the back of the scheme where he lived.
Newspapers are elephants in a desert of their own making, desperately wandering from watering hole to watering hole, but the revenue flowing from each tributary of their 18th century monopoly on the sale of copies is drying up. Newspapers are doomed
A substantial recessional moraine accumulated at the junction of the three tributary glaciers at this position.
It is fed by six main rivers, from the west and south: Oueds Douimis, Sejenane, Malah, Rhezala, Joumine (canalized across the marshes) and Tine, a tributary of the Joumine. Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
Jane Morgan, prosecuting on behalf of the Environment Agency, said the beck was a tributary of the River Wenning and an important watercourse for the local fish population.
The travellers bound to that bourne embark here on steamers that go down the Volga as far as its confluence with the Kama, a tributary stream, and thence ascend the Kama, which is navigable all the way to Perm. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
And from the Po itself, and its tributary the Mincio, which broadens into the three lakes that wrap themselves slothfully around the old town, comes fog - huge banks of it that make life cold and unfocussed between autumn and spring.
Find the surface of each area by planimetry and multiply this value with the runoff coefficient of that particular area (average reduction factor at the end of the design period) to find the surface of the reduced tributary area; 1. Intake structures
The Sanctuary is in the basin of the brackish Djoudj bayou (distributary or marigot) between the main river channel to the north and the Gorom bayou to the south. Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal
Water trickles from a tributary spring into a ewer held against the outlet by a maiden gracefully leaning forward as she grasps the stem of an olive bush to steady herself.
A firebreak follows a tributary burn, the Shiel Rig Burn, and this leads onto the grassy west ridge of Shalloch on Minnoch.
It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle.
And if now, in the inevitable reflux, the BNP can do some dirty but needful work contributary to breaking the citadels of the lunatic British nomenklatura, then more power to them. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Currently, it has sought to divert more of its flow to the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, into the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest swamp in the United States. Archive 2010-08-01
Lake Ontario tributary chinook salmon takes a moment to pose for the camera before this release. Photo by Brian Bradfiled.
They'd reached one of the rustic bridges over an opaque emerald Isis tributary. TICKLED PINK
It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle.
Within the distributary channel the relatively static nature of the saline wedge inhibits seaward bedload transport.
Stonebridge Hill is a notorious stretch of road between Earls Colne and Halstead where the road bends sharply before crossing a bridge over Bourne Brook, a tributary of the River Colne.
The largest stands are found not along the larger river channels but along slow-moving, meandering tributary streams where alluvial deposition is occurring.
Flows may have been storm-triggered or represent hyperpycnal underflows sourced from deltaic distributary channels, indicating the proximity of the coastline.
The camp was beside the grey shingle bed of a tributary stream. HIGH STAND
By what magic do they find their way back not just to the right river mouth, or the right tributary of that river, but to the precise little stream where they once hatched?
Within days of establishing Jinogojé, Schultes began planning an expedition to the homeland of the Yukuna, an Arawakan people inhabiting the Miritiparaná, a remote tributary of the Caquetá born in the lightly forested uplands south of the Apaporis. One River
The threat of flash floods loomed large over the people living along the Sutlej river with the formation of a huge lake in Tibet, upstream Lapcha in the Parchu nullah, a tributary of the Spiti rivers.
These differences demonstrate that the Snake River finespotted cutthroat trout population found above Palisades Reservoir is not a single homogeneous entity but consists of several subpopulations associated with different tributary streams and different life histories migratory and nonmigratory that maintain a high degree of reproductive isolation. Trout and Salmon of North America
The Toleure, a tributary of the Aubonne, frequently large enough to be called a confluent, flows out from the foot of a wall of rock composed of regular parallelopipeds, and in the spring, when the snows are melting freely, its sources burst out at various levels of the rock. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
The area to be irrigated in the basin of the Khabur River, a major tributary of the Euphrates in the Syrian territory, is 137,000 ha.
A tributary feeds in and has two stone bridges; the one for infrequent cars is frizzy with maidenhair ferns, two yards away its predecessor for packhorses is painted with lichens.
If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction, it could only be in a narrower channel.
Hundreds of bullheads and stoneloach, 49 trout and one eel were among the fish killed in Lockholme Beck, a tributary of Scandal Beck, at Ravenstonedale, near Kirkby Stephen.
Second, North Korea patterned its entire philosophy of self-sufficiency - juche - as a repudiation of what it termed the "flunkeyism" of Korea's previous position in the Chinese tributary system. North Korea as future ally of US?
The spokesman said the group didn't have more attacks planned in Abuja and would now "retreat to the creeks," referring to the vast tributary of the Niger River, where militants have established camps in the past. Blasts Kill Seven Near Nigeria Independence Celebrations
Lake Ontario tributary chinook salmon takes a moment to pose for the camera before this release. Photo by Brian Bradfiled.
These cycles are interpreted as distributary mouth bars formed during a brief lowstand period.
The mouth of any tributary stream is also alogical target, as is the underwater delta usually formed where any flowingwater enters a pond. How to Catch Early Season Trout in Ponds
Situated on the hydrological divide between the Baltic and Black Seas, and lies in the drainage basin of the River Narewka, a tributary of the Narew. Bialowieza Forest, Poland
A large tract of land was inundated following a 20-foot breach in the Pai distributary near Anandpur Jharot village, about 10 km from here, last evening.
Also, the River Chasm crossed my path, and I canoed on that until the tributary ended in Coulombe.
These intervals possibly represent signatures of distributary channels in a coastal-plain environment.
Maybe someday, sticky and sweaty, I'll be tempted to skinny-dip in some meandering tributary of the Amazon River.
Alcohol was suspected to have played a contributary role in more than half of all accidents reported, Maharaj said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Both entities have confirmed the outfall is a tributary that empties into the Antietam Creek. Waynesboro Record Herald Homepage RSS
I find it a basic evasion of a business cost, and a heavy contributary cause for Inflation. Economic Attribution Error, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There was a river mouth near to the beach and we would often row up the river and set a net off one of the mangrove heads, partially blocking the tributary.
For example, the trout of Gance Creek, a small tributary to the North Fork Humboldt River, average only 126 scales along the lateral line, as is typical of coastal rainbow trout. Trout and Salmon of North America
A proposed hydroelectric dam on the Madeira river (a tributary of the Amazon) was denounced, and the country's new oil find claimed for its people.
Another tip is to look for tributary streams flowing into the main river.
At early morn we land and pursue our way for a few miles across country to Lin-kiang, which is situated on a big tributary stream a few miles above its junction with the Kan-kiang. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
The dam will be built at the foothills of the Andes, in the Amazon rainforest, some 75 kilometres east of the capital Quito, on the Coca River, which flows into the Napo, a tributary of the Amazon River, at a big bend (or "codo") where the water level plunges 600 metres. Spero News
From west to east the most important rivers are the Ogun, the Oshun, the Oni with its tributary the Shasha or Omo, the Owenna, and the Osse. Nigerian lowland forests
Nearby, a smaller lake was created by damming a tributary creek.
`I believe that at one time this was a tributary of the Muddy River. THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
The monarchs of Ayutthaya found it expedient to enter into a tributary relationship with the Chinese emperors.
On a Salmon River tributary downstream from Francis' place lies the site of the old mining town of Florence.
The so-called saphenous opening, therefore, is naturally masked by the superficial fascia; and this membrane being here perforated for the passage of the saphena vein, and its tributary branches, as also the efferent vessels of the lymphatic glands, is termed "cribriform. Surgical Anatomy
A river, about846 km( 526 mi) long, of southeast Australia flowing generally northwest to a tributary of the Darling River.

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