Example sentences for: rivers

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

  • In the center, Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Fiumi) celebrates the great rivers of the four continents: the Americas (Río de la Plata), Europe (Danube), Asia (Ganges), and Africa (Nile).

  • Without trees to absorb the moisture, monsoon rains run off rapidly, swelling the rivers and causing severe floods downstream in India and Bangladesh.

  • Between 1952 and 1960 Arthur Rivers, then in his twenties and Londoner by birth, was in charge of the boating-lake at Goodrington, a district of Paignton in Devon, now part of Torbay.

  • 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 first number of The Dandy , published by D. C. Thomson of Dundee, was dated 4 December 1937, when Arthur Rivers would have been six or seven years old.


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