Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The bank of a river.
Wiktionary
- n. A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the bank of a river
Examples
“I still fail to see how being trained to rescue someone from a riverbank translates into diving into a cold river in which you can't see, swim down to a car that you only have a vague idea of its location, and rescue someone who may or may not be in the car and may or may not already be daed.”
“Conditions at the riverbank were a shared experience.”
“Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.”
“Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall.”
“Spate irrigation is called Deschek irrigation and it also includes the areas along the riverbanks, which are often called riverbank farms (5-100 meters (m) from river).”
“That sleeping bag on the riverbank will be a horrible place.”
“Here, the riverbank was a web of barbed wire with a minefield on the East German side.”
“Standing on the riverbank was a frantic dog who clearly had no interest in being abandoned in Lago Agrio.”
“In the memories of the young man you captured on the riverbank was a prominent vision of an important time in his life, his recent initiation into the Verdant Company.”
“The riverbank was a popular gathering spot for teenagers then and Donna, friends said, would sometimes hang out there.”
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
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Duelistic
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Chocolate Factory Chapter's 18, 19, 2...
Vocabulary for Chapter's 18,19,20,21,22 and 23 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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It's Wet and It's Land--Wetlands!
names for types of wetlands
pocosin, bog, peatland, mangrove, reservoir, creek, saltflat, stream, spong, vernal pool, estuary, spring and 45 more...
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