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How to use the word RIVER in a Sentence? Page #11

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What our experiment is going to do is show why the Flint river water was growing more legionella. This is the only way you can do that testing becuase that water doesn't exist anymore, we had to recreate it.

Virginia Tech

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our drop zone is an island in the Zambezi River, if you're good, you land on the island. If not, in the river. And yes there are crocs. But we keep a boat on standby just in case!

Axel Zirzow

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The bridge will be all glass. You’ll be able to see the skyline of Midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building to the west and the East River on the other side.

Gregg Pasquarelli

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My biggest fear was he was going to drive this car into a river and I’m going to drown there and no one is going to know I’m in this trunk.

Brittany Diggs

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I was really hoping for a repeat of that last night, you feel a little alone and naked walking down the Yukon River all by yourself in the middle of the night, looking at wolf tracks that every once in a while, you go, ‘Hmm.’.

Lindwood Fiedler

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If you're after beach time or volcano trekking (not recommended in slippery conditions), the wet season can be inconvenient, on the other hand, the wet is better for river rafting (better flow conditions) and waterfall chasing.

Marian Carroll

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I initially thought, and several people thought, it could be some rope that snagged on the bottom of the river with chunks of ice, other people have mentioned everything from sea monster to giant sturgeon.

Land Management staffer Craig McCaa

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Every day more people are signing on and becoming more resolute about not allowing a retail civil rights organization to sell us down a river, but, to date, the NAACP has shown no interest in meeting with black people that disagree with them — even after repeated requests.

Chris Stewart

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Faith-based cruising has been a growing category for EO for a number of years, eO Tours has seen year-over-year growth in cruising for more than five years. This includes domestic and Mediterranean cruises. We added faith-based European river cruises with AmaWaterways over four years ago, and bookings have grown every year.

Mark Yeh

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

As the FBI report notes, neither Hillary Clinton nor her attorneys had knowledge of the Platte River Network employee’s actions. It appears he acted on his own and against guidance given by both Clinton’s and Platte River’s attorneys to retain all data in compliance with a congressional preservation request.

Brian Fallon

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We started to think, oh, well, maybe we should consider changing our plans. Who knows what’s going to happen there ? Who knows if we’re going to be able to get to our river cruise or not ? in the end.

Kristin Luna

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My feet are now rested without endless trips to (fetch water), and my children can now concentrate in school because I no longer ask them to follow me to the river.

Mary Mwikali Kiminza

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have to dig wells 100 metres deep now if we want to have drinking water, the problem is that after mining, it is cheaper for the company to just dump the water into the river Warta from where it goes into the Baltic Sea instead of cleaning it up and pouring it [back] into our lakes.

Ewaryst Matczak

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The problem is that after mining, it is cheaper for the company to just dump the water into the river Warta from where it goes into the Baltic Sea instead of cleaning it up and pouring it [back] into our lakes.

Ewaryst Matczak

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is significant, as 42 percent of the coal produced in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin was sold through such captive transactions, depriving taxpayers, local schools and other beneficiaries of royalties.

Tyson Slocum

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

All morning, when I was over the Hudson River I felt like a 3-year old kid looking at a Christmas tree, it was so beautiful.

Andre Borschberg

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

One could reasonably believe that if Tucker had committed the same crime just across the Red River in, say, Bossier Parish, he would not now be on death row.

Stephen Breyer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Blood will flow like a river.

Clarita Alia

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think of it as we’re going down a river as we age, when we’re young adults or middle aged, we’re pretty much in the same boat, but then with aging the stream splits up( and) we start zigging and zagging on different pathways.

Martha McClintock

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Suddenly, there will be literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of tonnes of carp that will be dead in the River Murray.

Christopher Pyne

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If The EPA had followed the advice of The EPA own expert, many of the injuries to the people of Flint River could have been avoided or minimized.

Michael Pitt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are better off economically, and we are better off socially, the economic base is diverse. The air is cleaner. The river is cleaner.

Don Cunningham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fighting in a river, the komodo will lose, but fighting in the jungle on one of our islands, the komodo has a pretty good chance to win.

William Tanuwijaya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are six countries on one river. The Lancang-Mekong sub-region is our joint home, over the many years of being neighbours we have become family.

Premier Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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