rivers
Example Sentences
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People living near coasts, rivers and lakes ramp up fishing, depleting stocks rapidly until controls are enacted in some locations, along with increased farming for seaweed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The 1862 mega-floods were not from an El Niño but a piling-up of atmospheric rivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Also known as grabblers or hand-fishermen, noodlers use their own bare limbs as bait to catch enormous flathead catfish lurking in Southern and Midwestern rivers, creeks, and lakes.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Last year was among the driest for the world's rivers in over three decades, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in a report.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
How could there still be so many miles of mountains, rivers, lakes, and forests to march up, down, around, and through?
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
