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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.
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.
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.
This is the Dão wine region, whose oaky red wines are named after the River Dão, a tributary of the Mondego.