riverbed

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The Daily Telegraph claimed that harnessing the power of fish swimming through a river could hold the key to meeting Britain's future electricity needs and that installing electric prongs along the riverbed was the way forward.

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  • Wrong. With the caisson on the riverbed, it's time to push it another 45 feet into the riverbed in search of bedrock.
  • She drifted down a dried-up riverbed, with pure white animal bones on the banks. —  Wintersmith
  • The trail was plain as can be, being a quarter-mile wide and f lat as a riverbed. —  ElleryQueen'sMysteryMagazine,February2003
  • Fortunately, from what Sara could see of the body in the center of the riverbed, the girl had gotten off lightly. —  Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
  • In near darkness, I reached the jeweled riverbed, and stumbled my way along it, heedless of the risk of falling. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
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