How to Use tributary in a Sentence

tributary

1 of 2 noun

• This stream is a tributary of the Ohio River.
• Of all the rivers in the Colorado River tributary, the Yampa is the last without any dams.
  — Rachel Walker, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• One source of water are the tributaries of the West Branch of the Patapsco River.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 9 Sep. 2023
• The old slide said the agency would remove all of the slough plugs between the Black River and tributary channels and sloughs.
  — Bryan Hendricks, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• The small lot was roughly 30 feet away from a fen that, via an unnamed tributary, fed into the lake.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Across the rest of the state, water ends up in the Ohio River — a major tributary of the Mississippi.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Feb. 2024
• The property straddles about 4,000 feet of the river, which is a tributary of Beaver Lake.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• Over 66 percent of drains in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where Varanasi sits, still empty into the Ganges and its tributaries.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• The tributaries from Iran are the only source of water in the province, other than the dwindling rainfall.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
• Today the Snail Darter can be found along 400 miles of the river's main stem and multiple tributaries.
  — Robert Kunzig, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• One of my favorite places is the Horbachykha tract running along a tributary of the Dnipro River on Kyiv’s left bank.
  — Megan Buskey, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2022
• The Bear River basin, the lake’s largest tributary, has snowpack at 138% above average for this time of year.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Sewage treatment plants on the Seine and its tributary, the Marne, are also being improved.
  — John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• Wilde’s ranch is located along Birch Creek, which is a tributary of the Bear River.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• As a child, Burk spent her summers ninety miles from the nearest village, at a fish camp on the Tanana River, a tributary of the Yukon.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022
• In some tributaries, blue catfish now make up as much as 75% of the total fish biomass, according to DNR.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Piatúa, a tributary of the Amazon located in the Pastaza region of Ecuador, is thought to be millions of years old.
  — Mélissa Godin, Time, 25 Oct. 2022
• All of the northern tributaries are all closed (or restricted).
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• Suicide Glacier was once a much larger frozen tributary, which flowed into and merged with the Mendenhall Glacier.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• In Brazilian maps, this marks the beginning of the Amazon, with Negro as the second main tributary.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
• The tributary that feeds into the Pasig River serves as an extreme example of how much of our trash makes it into the ocean.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• It is situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Varuna and Assi, both tributaries of the Ganges, which join the river course here.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Dominguez’s ancestors lived along the river and its tributaries.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Should the levee fail, Lower Lake Mary will empty out into a side tributary.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• On San Marcos Creek, a typically dry tributary, a 5-year-old boy was swept from a car and into the torrent.
  — Jeremy Miller, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023
• Guests can also go fly-fishing in Willow Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River.
  — Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• For 100 years, no salmon have made it to their historic habitat in a tributary of the Sacramento River due to dams on its lower reaches.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2022
• His family has farmed for generations near its shores and that of its largest tributary, the Bear River.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2022
• Many facilities along the Dnieper and its tributaries are key nodes in the supply chains that connect Ukrainian farms with world markets.
  — Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• The Greenway, which connects towns and parks along a tributary of the Rogue River, was beloved for its wetlands and for stands of oaks that attracted migrating birds.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024

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tributary

2 of 2 adjective

• And all the Great Salt Lake’s tributary watersheds are off to a good start so far.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• All of that is good news for tributary anglers such as Kiehm.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
• On Friday night, a falling branch took the tributary line with it.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2021
• Look for breaking fish around the areas where the tributary rivers meet the main lake as well as around long points and offshore humps.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 3 Sep. 2021
• From the coast, heavy rains will push the last remaining trout and reds out of the tributary areas north of I-10 down Mobile Bay.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 26 Mar. 2021
• Where tributary rivers meet the Great Salt Lake’s saline shores, the merging of fresh and salty water creates an oasis of life.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
• Baldwin Creek and two headwater tributary streams run through the preserve, and the area is a habitat for many plant and animal species.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2020
• The largest tributary merging with Bayou des Cannes drained most of today’s Uptown.
  — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• Most important to Beijing, the pattern could over the long run turn Russia into a kind of tributary state to Beijing.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2022
• After knocking his tee shot into the tributary Sunday that feeds into Rae's Creek, Horschel tried to hit it out.
  — Tim Reynolds, Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
• After knocking his tee shot into the tributary Sunday that feeds into Rae’s Creek, Horschel tried to hit it out.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 11 Apr. 2021
• The tributary muscle car, though road legal, has been extensively tuned to go well with the dynamics of a track.
  — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• One of the biggest changes is that there’s a tremendous amount of sediment that flows down the river every year that has dropped out in tributary canyons in the main stem of the Colorado River.
  — Bethany Baker, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• Each tributary canyon is unique, with dramatic shapes, and vivid colors.
  — Jill K. Robinson, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
• Much of it reaches the river through municipal storm drains and tributary streams.
  — John Flesher, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• At Lewis Smith, best bet is to look for striped bass making spawning runs up the tributary rivers--the fish migrate from early March to early April before returning to the depths of the lake for the rest of the year.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• From Lewis Smith, heavy rains have muddied the tributary rivers and raised the lake level, putting some bass into brushy flats where they can be caught on bladed swimbaits and squarebills.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 7 May 2021
• Here’s the poignant meaning behind Her Majesty’s tributary botanics.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 13 Sep. 2022
• Like most saline lakes throughout the West, Great Salt Lake has declined over time due to drought and from humans diverting water from its tributary rivers.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 July 2022
• Under the new plan, developers would construct the dams, now numbering four, in a side tributary canyon called Big Canyon, about 23 miles west of Tuba City.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2020
• From now through mid-February, most crappies will be caught in water deeper than 10 feet around woody structure in tributary creeks and bayous of these lakes.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 20 Oct. 2021
• The crater is officially known as the Batagaika crater, named after the near-flowing Batagayka, a tributary river of the Yana river.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 May 2022
• But that’s not the case for the urban Jordan River, Stonely said, because its basin doesn’t have many reservoirs, which means less data collected on its tributary streams.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• By Valentine’s Day, dry weather had plunged snowpack above most tributary streams back below normal.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• The Great Salt Lake began to recede in the early 2000s, fueled by the current megadrought and unfettered diversion of its tributary rivers to water farms, cities and suburban turf.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• Warmer conditions are eroding the flows of the tributary streams as vegetation draws more water and as more moisture evaporates off the landscape.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• By January, the fish generally move toward the tributary streams on Lewis Smith, or towards the dam in Martin, following their instinct to run upstream to spawn.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 8 Sep. 2021
• Coastal fall tributary seasons: Will be announced later this spring; however, there will be no wild coho fishing in north coast tributaries this year.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Visitors are laden with so many tributary gifts that cemetery guards have developed a side business: using luggage carts commandeered from the airport to shuttle offerings from vans to the grave for a small fee.
  — Tom Downey, WSJ, 30 July 2017
• The suspicious Ming were constricting foreign trade; Portugal was not a formal tributary state, and therefore was not recognized by the dynasty’s officials as having the right to trade.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 6 June 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024