Rivers

American  

[riv-erz] / ˈrɪv ərz /

noun

1. Larry Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, 1923–2002, U.S. painter.

2. William Halse 1865–1922, English physiologist and anthropologist.

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Rivers British  

/ ˈrɪvəz /

noun

1. a state of S Nigeria, in the Niger river delta on the Gulf of Guinea. Capital: Port Harcourt. Pop: 5 185 400 (2006). Area: 11 077 sq km (4277 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Goods from the frontier—fur, meat, minerals and such—flowed east on the Kansas and Missouri rivers, making KCK the first Kansas City such traders reached.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a lot of places around the country, residents already fight them over wells running low and rivers running hot.

From Salon

In Wrightwood, nestled in the San Gabriel Mountains, residents were digging out of rivers of mud and debris that washed through their homes.

From Los Angeles Times

In his enjoyable and ambitious “The Tree of Life,” Max Telford, an evolutionary biologist at University College London, takes us on an exhilarating cartographic journey in which he attempts to map out the various rivers and tributaries that make up the basic infrastructure of life’s evolutionary history.

From The Wall Street Journal

Companies are crafting plans to release scrubbed water into rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• estuary
• stream
• tributary