Sentence for river | Use river in a sentence

River example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use river in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for river.

• The river was full of life. (20)
• He goes away towards the river. (8)
• He walked slowly along the river. (8)
• Through Winton flashed one dreadful thought: The river! (8)
• This place was on the river Connecticut. (19)
• By moonlight too, the river must be ravishing! (8)
• They were passing the river at Casalmaggiore. (10)
• Johnson was a settler on the Upper Hudson River. (19)
• The river began to be the focus of rural activity. (20)
• Fleur too had stopped, and was frowning at the river. (8)
• The sky was dark above the river; the wind had risen. (8)
• He had snatched her as by a miracle from that snaky river. (8)
• They talked only of the river; they cared for nothing else. (9)
• I was beginning to think we should w have to drag the river. (8)
• Rowing clubs are numerous all along the river from Ulm to Vienna. (20)
• She entered our noble river somewhat early on a fine July morning. (10)
• In any case the river line would naturally be picketed or patrolled. (7)
• Just then the moon came out, and I could see the river shining below. (8)
• The river streamed on steadily through pleasant riverside landscapes. (2)
• Duck River was directly in our rear; I suppose both our flanks rested on it. (7)
• When they reached the mighty river they ran great danger for want of a pilot. (19)
• The great volume, the indefatigable purpose of the river, held the mind in chain. (2)
• So it showed beneath the bridge, and down the river till the curving shores hid it. (9)
• He had not been there since the day before that night on the river, twenty years ago. (8)
• My way lay up the bald valley of the river, along the march of Vivarais and Gévaudan. (2)
• There was the river gleaming before us under a rainbow mist that hallowed every shape. (8)
• The Bois-Brulés then set out to wipe the colony of Red River from the face of the earth. (19)
• It was written on the notepaper of an inn twelve miles up the river: these were the words. (8)
• When the storm was over, he left his retreat and went down the wet path to the river bank. (8)
• There was a stout gentleman with a knowledge of the river, which he seemed eager to impart. (2)
• A lovely stream, your river Thames, so calm and broad; it is like the spirit of your people. (8)
• Below the window the river in spring flood rushed down the valley, a stream, of molten bronze. (8)
• The bright river, and their boat grounded on the shallows, and the swallows flitting over them. (8)
• A far-away river, a hill, or a meadow might be brought to sight by trimming some trees or brush. (17)
• As in a dream the river lay, and dream-like the shipping moved or rested on its deep, broad bosom. (9)
• The valley looked even lovelier by morning; and soon the road descended to the level of the river. (2)
• Down went the heads of the poplars, the river staggered in its leap, the vale was shuddering grey. (10)
• After a good woman, and a good book, and tobacco, there is nothing so agreeable on earth as a river. (2)
• He stood against the rail, looking west where the river swept round in a wide curve under the woods. (8)
• Spring came, and it was decided to venture again to plant the colony on the banks of the Red River. (19)
• Meanwhile Cuthbert Grant and his Bois-Brulés began final hostilities against the Red River settlement. (19)
• Their imagination had been stirred by the tales they had heard of the country by the St. Lawrence River. (19)
• On the point of land thus projecting into the bend of the river, six redoubts were bristling with cannon. (18)
• Sometimes it had to serve mills; and being still a little river, ran very dry and shallow in the meanwhile. (2)
• But the river had us round an angle in a twinkling, and we were alone with the green trees and running water. (2)
• From far down the river by which they rode came the sound of a cannon, breaking the Sabbath repose of the air. (9)
• The sultry air, charged with a scent of meadow-sweet, of river and roses, closed on his senses, drowsing them. (8)
• I went back into the corn, found the river, followed it back a long way and mounted into the fork of a low tree. (7)
• Dotted along the hill-sides and in the broad valley on the left bank of the river are many prosperous little towns. (20)
• They told him that the settlers and a large part of the property of Red River had been transported to Fort William. (19)
• The chateau stood square at a branch of the river, tossing three light bridges of pretty woodwork to park and garden. (10)
• Arnold, concealed in the shadow of the cliff, lay near the river bank anxious for the boat to return with Major Andre. (18)
• But you must be positive of victory, otherwise, with the river behind you, your new position is likely to be ticklish. (10)
• It was bare of trees just here, and she could see, across the river valley, the high larch-crowned tor on the far side. (8)
• A new brigade of immigrants from Scotland also arrived at Red River only to gaze upon the embers of the burnt settlement. (19)
• Night was fast settling upon the low flat banks of the stream, and nothing stirred, save the ceaseless ripple of the river. (6)
• Hungry river of the crag Stretching hands for earth he came: Force and Speed astride his name Pointed back to spear and flag. (10)
• Down the hill, through a wood of larch-trees, to the river, and across the bridge, to mount at once by a path through hay-fields. (8)
• The click and swish blended with the rustle of the willows and the poplars, and the cooing of a wood-pigeon, in a true river song. (8)
• Where we swam the Yellowstone we had an abundance of both, for the entire river valley, two or three miles wide, was dotted with elk. (7)
• Donacona and the other chiefs, on hearing this, did their utmost to dissuade him by inventing stories about the dangers of the river. (19)
• The sky was blue and cloudless, and the sliding surface of the river held up, in smooth places, a mirror to the heaven and the shores. (2)
• The good mother was dead, the meadowside home by the great river was broken up, and the brothers were parted between two of their kinsmen. (1)
• Peasants were at work repairing the low dikes that protect the farms from the overflow of the river, or weaving fresh rods in the wattled fences. (20)
• The sun set, dew began to fall; the river changed, and grew whiter; the sky paled to the colour of an amethyst; shadows lengthened, dissolved slowly. (8)
• The commonest flowers on the sandy patches near the river are the yellow snap-dragon (butter and eggs), pink ononis, and a pale-green eryngium, very prickly. (20)

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