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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.
When the cremation is completed, the ashes are scattered in the shallow waters of the Bagmati, which is regarded as holy because it is a tributary of the Ganges.
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.
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.