Example sentences for: tributary

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

  • The gorge, known as El Tajo, is a deep and narrow crevasse that plunges 150 m (490 ft) to the foaming Río Guadalevín, a tributary of the Guadiaro River.

  • I'm also amazed at the things he knows, like of what river the Zambezi is a tributary.

  • Driving east from Vancouver on the Trans-Canada Highway and following the Fraser River north to its tributary, the Thompson, you are backtracking along the great exploration route traced by intrepid fur traders from the prairies to the Pacific.

  • Mostly modern and industrial, it sits on the edge of the impressive deep gorge of the River Corgo, a tributary of the Douro.

  • Before turning east on the Trans-Canada Highway to follow the Thompson, take a look (just north of town on Highway 12) at the dramatic effect of the confluence mixing the lime of the tributary with the clearer mountain waters of the Fraser.


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