winding stream in a sentence
Examples
- The history of the name is not certain but it is believed to be formed from the Celtic " dubh " meaning dark or black, and " cocr " meaning a winding stream, giving " dark winding stream ", the stream that fed Doffcocker Lodge.
- "The Romans, who traversed the plains of Hungary, suppose that they passed "'several "'navigable rivers, either in canoes or portable boats; but there is reason to suspect that the winding stream of the Teyss, or Tibiscus, might present itself in different places under different names ."
- Although Native Americans called the river " Aboutsett " ( " winding stream " ), European settlers first called it the River at Saugus, where " Saugus " ( possibly a native word for " long " ) arguably named the beach running from bass were harvested from 1632 onwards.
- The straightened section of the Yellow River in Starke County, which had historically been a swampy and winding stream with numerous oxbow lakes, was the subject of a 2004 effort by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to address excess accumulation of sediment in the river's streambed as a result of channelization.