fordable
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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For example, in the Chinese town of Tumen, the only border barrier was a narrow river, fordable by a determined escapee in seconds.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023
In a desperate attempt to prove that the straits were anything but dire, Mr. Coppola and director of photography Vittorio Storaro tried to show the adjustors that the “stream” was in fact fordable.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2015
In it, the English author lays out rules for a strategic version of toy soldiers—the number of moves required “to pass a fordable river,” “to embark into boats,” and “to unlimber guns.”
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2012
The Nive, and other rivers in the area like the Gaves, can be 75 ft. across in places, though tributaries are much smaller and easily fordable in waders.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We've learned one lesson," said the colonel, when at last they halted on the northerly bank of a stream which had proved barely fordable.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard
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