How to Use riverbed in a Sentence

riverbed

noun

• The trail begins to climb up a dry riverbed to the left.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2022
• Small piles of dead fish and shrimp were strewn about the riverbed.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
• The riverbed sinks and turns to stone, and a motley beard of roots shrouds the banks.
  — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
• There is not much space between the bottom of the boats and the riverbed.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Its skull bones were unearthed in 2007 in a riverbed of the Haţeg Basin.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• The riverbed in the Bolter Valley was slick with a ribbon of ice.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2022
• About four years ago, Ballesteros came to the riverbed for refuge.
  — Anh Do, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• When Chung returned to the riverbed, it had been washed down stream in a storm.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• Behind the flags, the riverbed was dry dirt, cleared and leveled.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• The guide placed a finger to his mouth, then pointed to the dry riverbed ahead.
  — Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2022
• What was once a mighty flood trickled to a dry riverbed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2021
• Then the riverbed snaked on, a dusty artery passing through green fields.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Be aware of a road closure due to a brush fire burning in the riverbed in @CityofSantee.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Dams put water into the dry riverbed in the center of the city.
  — John Buntin, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2018
• The beetles would not be in the United States if not for the tamarisk that thrives along riverbeds.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• Some walked further up the dry riverbed, others cut through the brush.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• The fire burned an area south of state Route 52 and north of Garnet Avenue in a riverbed.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• Grass some eight feet tall, sprouting from the riverbed, rustled in the slight breeze.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
• That the blood of continuity still pumped, that the day ran in its riverbed.
  — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• The water flows aboveground for about a mile and then soaks into the riverbed.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• The people in the cars ran off toward the San Luis Rey riverbed, Atenza said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
• So the scale model of the river was junked along with the plans to restore the riverbed. Until now.
  — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• The brush fire was reported in a riverbed near the Plaza Bonita mall.
  — Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2018
• Like a catfish trolling the bottom of the riverbed for food, Winnie snatched any morsel that fell on the floor.
  — Lauren Palmer, Curbed, 15 June 2018
• The dirt along the riverbed today looks as though somebody took a cleaver to a chocolate cake.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Fire personnel and lifeguards gathered at the scene to help pull the body from the riverbed.
  — Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• The river at this point (more properly a fjord, a riverbed drowned by the sea) is vast and sullen.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Some clues as to the cause of the crash might be revealed now that the Mermaid has been recovered from the riverbed.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 June 2019
• Back in his room, the Viking is still there — until the entire wall of the bedroom opens up to reveal a riverbed, where the Viking’s small boat is waiting.
  — Eric Goldman, TVLine, 24 July 2024
• For its first billion or so years, Mars was partly covered in water, as dry ocean basins and riverbeds on its surface now attest.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024