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n. (oxbow lake English)
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"Oxbow Lakes" is a single by ambient house artist The Orb. It featured remixes from artists such as Carl Craig, Sabres of Paradise and A Guy Called Gerald. It also includes an acoustic version performed by the string sextet Instrumental which was produced by Darren Allison. It reached number thirty-eight on the UK Singles Chart.
Usage examples of "oxbow lakes".
She was no longer a huge meandering surge Bng with ponderous dignity across the flat plains, taking in countless butanes and volumes of silt, then breaking into channels and form- r oxbow lakes.
There were many meanders and oxbow lakes, which, cut off from the flow, had turned into stagnant marshes and ponds.
On the other side of the platform the view sank over cliffs, scree and forest into the shadows of the broad valley, where the meandering loops and oxbow lakes of Tulume River could be glimpsed through the slowly drifting patches of mist.
They lived in a bewildering landscape of land and water, mazelike canals, oxbow lakes, and tangled vines.
When the tidal marshes drained again, it spent the other half of its day as a high and dry hill firmly joined to the mainland once more, but surrounded by treacherous bogs, pools of brackish water, and long, landlocked oxbow lakes where saltwater fish swam in surprised dismay to find themselves cut off from the sea, easy prey to the thousands of waterfowl and wading birds and canny swamp foxes living in the marshlands.
Most of it was covered with oxbow lakes, or drained for farming and speckled with thatched hamlets of clay huts.
The land here was riddled with old channels and overgrown oxbow lakes, as though someone had scrunched up the land and then imperfectly flattened it.
I followed, speeding and spinning down avenues where space was wrinkled and time a stream with many bends and some few oxbow lakes.