Examples of riverbed in a Sentence
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As its inhabitants fled, their buildings burned and sunk into a riverbed, which would preserve their homes and belongings for millennia.
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Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
The site, about 75 miles northwest of London, drew the ‘British Pompeii’ moniker because, after a fire about a year after the village was built, the platforms holding it sunk into the riverbed.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
And those alternatives could be to build an island around the pier or a rock wall, or put dolphins – standalone structures set in the riverbed – adjacent to it, or put on fenders that absorb the energy so the ship doesn't come in so fast.
—CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
Surveillance cameras at the school captured the suspects walking toward a nearby riverbed, authorities said.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
Stories and interpretations Carolina Munoz recalls hearing the story of a woman weeping by a riverbed.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
The small municipality made a small ask: $160,000 to clear a camp of about 30 people along the Los Angeles riverbed and expand the city’s shelter system.
—Marisa Kendall, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
Sand in riverbeds, lake beds and shorelines is the best for construction, but scarcity opens the market to less suitable sand from beaches and dunes, much of it scraped illegally and cheaply.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
On track to be completed by mid-October is a 300-foot stretch of clay pipe that will connect the low-flow channel at the center of the riverbed to the well on Metabolic Studio’s Spring Street property.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
The site, about 75 miles northwest of London, drew the ‘British Pompeii’ moniker because, after a fire about a year after the village was built, the platforms holding it sunk into the riverbed.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
And those alternatives could be to build an island around the pier or a rock wall, or put dolphins – standalone structures set in the riverbed – adjacent to it, or put on fenders that absorb the energy so the ship doesn't come in so fast.
—CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
Surveillance cameras at the school captured the suspects walking toward a nearby riverbed, authorities said.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
Stories and interpretations Carolina Munoz recalls hearing the story of a woman weeping by a riverbed.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
The small municipality made a small ask: $160,000 to clear a camp of about 30 people along the Los Angeles riverbed and expand the city’s shelter system.
—Marisa Kendall, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
Sand in riverbeds, lake beds and shorelines is the best for construction, but scarcity opens the market to less suitable sand from beaches and dunes, much of it scraped illegally and cheaply.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
On track to be completed by mid-October is a 300-foot stretch of clay pipe that will connect the low-flow channel at the center of the riverbed to the well on Metabolic Studio’s Spring Street property.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1781, in the meaning defined above
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
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: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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