RIVER in a Sentence

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143 example sentences for RIVER, such as:

1. The river flowed to the east.
2. The river is abundant in fish.
3. The river looked miles and miles across.
4. The mighty river lay like an ocean at rest.
5. It's so cold that even the river has frozen.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
river
 n.  a large natural stream of water, larger than a creek
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  The mighty river lay like an ocean at rest.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  They moved up the river street three blocks, then turned to the left up a crossstreet.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  The public were profoundly concerned; they searched high and low, they dragged the river for his body.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II.
8  Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
9  He abused me a little for being so slow; but I told him I fell in the river, and that was what made me so long.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
10  The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of driftwood going by on the rise.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
11  I says to myself, they'll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and then drag the river for me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
12  They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
13  The river looked miles and miles across.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
14  Well, when it come dark I tuck out up de river road, en went 'bout two mile er more to whah dey warn't no houses.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
15  The river went on raising and raising for ten or twelve days, till at last it was over the banks.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  The travelers set up a camp on the river bank.
17  They decided to widen out the river to avoid the flooding.
18  In the distance, beyond the river, was a small town.
19  He pulled the boy from the river and gave him mouth-to-mouth.
20  The river was too wide to swim across comfortably.
21  The river's broad mudflats were thought completely impassable.
22  To prevent flooding; we shall have to divert the river from its course.
23  The recollection adverse current becomes the river, submerged your me.
24  The current of the river is fast flowing and treacherous.
25  His error struck at the whole plan of a river development.
26  The river was harnessed to drive many mills.
27  It's so cold that even the river has frozen.
28  The river flowed to the east.
29  The village is so far from the river that their water has to be pumped in from the nearest water supply.
30  The river is abundant in fish.