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How to use riverbank in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Riverbank means a sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side. Example: “Turning the corner, I came on Julia sitting by the riverbank.”

Examples of riverbank by meaning

nounA sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.

  • "The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again," remarked the Lion.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 8, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC

More sentences with riverbank

  • Turning the corner, I came on Julia sitting by the riverbank.From the entry come on
  • There were clusters of other lads and beors all about the riverbank, drinking, laughing.2023, Colin Walsh, Kala. From the entry beour
  • Ahead, in the Little Missouri River bottom, Jakub spotted an obstinacy of bison ambling down the riverbank.2022, Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Liveright. From the entry obstinacy
  • The Chinese swamp cypress is deciduous, and it occurs naturally only on riverbanks and in swamps.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 99. From the entry Chinese swamp cypress
  • There are coppery-leafed forests along the riverbanks, and lanes of leaves the milky green of English apples.1996, William T[anner] Vollmann, “Disappointed by the Wind: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1993)”, in The Atlas, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN…. From the entry golden delicious
  • Along the riverbanks lie enchanted old gardens, with blueberried ivy spilling over their gray stone walls.1983, Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Letters and Journals (eds. Günter Busch & Liselotte Von Reinken; trans. Arthur S. Wensinger & Carole…. From the entry blueberried
  • As a van passed by blaring patriotic hymns from the oversize speakers on its roof, she weeded the riverbank.2017 December 17, Kee B. Park, “Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry weed
  • Troops containing up to 20 animals live along riverbanks where young capybaras are sometimes preyed on by caimans.2009, The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife, page 106. From the entry capybara
  • I had to keep close to the riverbank, under the edge of the jungle, with mosquitoes eating me alive.2002, Jack Williamson, Dragon's Island and Other Stories, Five Star, published 2002, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry eat someone alive
  • The sandmartins’ nests were loopholes of darkness in the riverbank.1975, Seamus Heaney, “Nesting-Ground”, in New Selected Poems, 1966-1987, London: Faber and Faber, published 1990, page 42. From the entry sand martin
  • The typothere herd in the open begins to drift towards a patch of trees by a dogleg in the riverbank to shelter.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 69. From the entry typothere
  • There were lots of them that year, camped out on the riverbank netting for whitebait, then fanning out around the streets selling their catch door to door.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry swagger

Meaning of riverbank

  1. noun A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.

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Questions about riverbank in a sentence

How do you use riverbank in a sentence?
Riverbank is used as a noun. For example: “Turning the corner, I came on Julia sitting by the riverbank.”
What is a short sentence with riverbank?
“The sandmartins’ nests were loopholes of darkness in the riverbank.”
What does riverbank mean?
Riverbank means a sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.

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