fording
- present participle of ford.
Example Sentences
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Some had their belongings stolen or damaged while fording rivers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023
Scotty Jalbert, emergency services manager for San Luis Obispo County, said river crossings can be deceiving and people can run into trouble after successfully fording them several times.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023
Baumbach, working on a larger scale than he has before, pulls off a few fine cinematic coups, one of them involving that station wagon fording a swollen stream.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022
They explored the property, hiking its trails, fording the stream that ran through it.
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2022
They followed the sounds around a lazy bend of the road and saw them; a column of armed men noisily fording a swollen stream.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
