Adour
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Nive and the Adour meet beneath our feet.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Vegetation within the circles can sometimes be suppressed, notes Isabelle Moretti, a geologist at the University of Pau and the Adour Region who has documented hydrogen seeping from fairy circles in Brazil, Namibia, and Australia.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 15, 2023
Ferme Descoubet lies at the far western edge of the Gers, near where the dense hills of the Gascon heartland flatten out into the alluvial plain of the Adour River.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2017
In a sort of ham homage, the leaders of modern-day France designated the basin of the Adour River near the Spanish border as the exclusive realm of Bayonne Ham.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2014
Thus about the year 1500 the sands at Bayonne were suddenly thrown across the mouth of the Adour.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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