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Example sentences for: tributary

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The successive Tokugawa leaders established their power base around their castle in Edo and developed a clever system of keeping the feudal lords (the daimyo) under their tributary thumb.
This is the Dão wine region, whose oaky red wines are named after the River Dão, a tributary of the Mondego.
Attractive Amarante sits on a gorge of the Tâmega (a tributary of the Douro) and makes a good stop if you are driving along the road from Porto towards Mesã Frio and Régua.
Mostly modern and industrial, it sits on the edge of the impressive deep gorge of the River Corgo, a tributary of the Douro.
I'm also amazed at the things he knows, like of what river the Zambezi is a tributary.