Example sentences for: rivers

How can you use “rivers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Around this time the Sumerian civilization living in Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq) founded and developed the cuneiform script, the world’s oldest form of writing on record.

  • The land west of Ontario was written off as one big empty wilderness until Alexander Mackenzie completed the first transcontinental crossing, and Simon Fraser and David Thompson mapped out the rivers and mountains of British Columbia and the Rockies.

  • Rent a canoe or kayak to explore some of the 500 lakes and rivers that sparkle across an area of 1,500 sq.

  • But the book doesn't go into any of that--the congenial barge trips on rivers in France, the "innocent" trips down the Nile, the lucrative transatlantic crossings, making grown men cry.

  • Once mercury is deposited in lakes, rivers, and oceans, it bioaccumulates in the food chain, resulting in high concentrations in predatory fish.


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