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How to use the word RIVER in a Sentence? Page #3

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Just 10 miles south of Denver beside the Platte River and bike trail, it’s easy to find by car, bicycle or inner tube, our house is all yours.

Todd Thibault

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For centuries, the worry was about the river flooding, but climate change has meant that Po River is now at risk of drying up, po River is not just Po River, Po River is part of the national psyche. The towns along Po River draw tourism and industry. It was almost a moat for central Italy that kept it safe from invaders. Now it is under threat and no one knows what to do to save it.

Tobias Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a cooperative with NPS Office of Public Healthy, Coconino County Health and Human Services and the CDC all working together to try to understand the disease pathway and looking in particular at river and backcountry trips along the Colorado River, that’s been the primary focus.

Joelle Baird

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There may have been a time when it was safe to use such sources, but no longer. Any untreated water has the potential to cause illness if it is not properly and carefully disinfected. we have a cooperative with NPS Office of Public Healthy, Coconino County Health and Human Services and the CDC all working together to try to understand the disease pathway and looking in particular at river and backcountry trips along the Colorado River.

Joelle Baird

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Just recently Russia and China didn't have a single bridge across the Amur River, but now they have as many as two bridges... so the trend is clear.

Artyom Lukin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With deep sadness, we report that the body of 6-year-old drowning victim Mas DeChhat was recovered from the Merrimack River today, our prayers are with him, his mother Boua DeChhat who died trying to save him, and the loved ones they left behind.

Massachusetts State Police

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Water is life, isn’t it? if they ever wanted to drop the Goldblum and just go with River Joe, that sounds evocative to me, that sounds like a good character. Or Charlie Ocean. I like both of those. Nothing wrong with Goldblum, but if they want to change it, fine with me.

Jeff Goldblum

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Proposed Map is the result of a flawed process that did not provide the public, including minority voters who live in historically marginalized communities, with an opportunity to provide input, we urge the Special Master to uncouple Black incumbents and reunite communities of interest around New York City, on Long Island, and in the Hudson River Valley.

The DCCC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We look for things like river otters, if they're there, it's a good sign.

John Hartig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We thought we're next, Detroit River is next.

John Hartig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Last night's tragic news on the recovery of the body of 14-year-old Brandy Wilson from the Mississippi River breaks my heart.

LaToya Cantrell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But( the pumping station) coming online is also a symbol of how serious the situation is on Colorado River right now, reservoir levels are lower than they've ever been in both Lake Powell and Lake Mead since the time that they filled.

Colby Pellegrino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That day I'm going to remember for all my life when I was leaving, especially when we crossed the border, you see your parents on the other side of the river and you just didn't realize till the end how this happened, how these things can happen in 2022.

Dayana Yastremska

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As you get east of the Mississippi River, the population density rapidly increases. We essentially have more targets to hit on the dartboard.

Victor Gensini

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I suspect the carcass got washed intact into a river channel, sank quickly to the bottom and then was rapidly covered by sand and mud on the riverbed.

Erich Fitzgerald

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to turn off the faucet that is continually feeding the river of violence in our cities, there's a tint of racism to this. We don't manufacture guns in Chicago but why are we able to remove 12,000 guns off the street ? Where are they coming from ?

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In general, these water shortages are stressing systems. They're stressing communities, in particular, the Colorado River, we are seeing the Bureau of Reclamation begin their calls for for additional actions that will provide or curtail some water allocations.

Ed Clark

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's kind of like the central bank of an economy, drawing money from local banks to kind of keep the economy afloat, lake Powell is the central bank of Colorado River. Maybe Lake Powell's workable for a little while, but just like a household, the longer Lake Powell's in debt, the harder Lake Powell gets. And Lake Powell's really the same thing with these reservoirs.

Justin Mankin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The future of Colorado River is going to be about grass, it's not going to be about indoor plumbing, the action is outdoors. It's crops and grasses.

Eric Kuhn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

An unidentified man in nailhead denim was fished out of the Chicago River, wrapped in chains locked to a Duesenberg hood ornament.

David Mamet

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2 years ago

Really, man, you throwing your life down a river either way you go, it's a no-win situation.

Larry McMichael

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Colorado River shortage's extremely fortunate that October and December 2021 were very wet months in California, as otherwise this extremely dry January and start to February would have produced pretty dire consequences.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We hope to more fully understand Nebraska’s concerns and goals, as so far those concerns and goals are quite simply hard to make sense of, our longstanding compliance of and respect for the water agreement between our states on the South Platte River remains intact, and we hope that our partners in Nebraska will show that they share that respect.

Jared Polis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now, even within the year, you can have a really wet month, like we did in October -- we had a fantastic atmospheric river -- then November comes around and it's really dry.

Michael Anderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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