Catchment areas

Usage examples of drainages.

As they neared the wall a wide braided river spilled out, glacial cobbles stacked and piled in the broad valley as the ice retreated from drainages and hills.

Bushes sprouted green leaves along the jagged drainages, the pungent scents of willow and wormwood wafting on the breeze.

The drainages they crossed were blanketed with frost-slick leaves that crackled beneath their feet.

Those channels represented two natural river drainages from which the enemy could approach Moscow.

The river was broad and brown, but not large enough to be one of the major African drainages, not the Congo nor the Luanda river.