What is "riverbanks"

Usage examples of "riverbanks".

Here, too, were insects, snails, frogs, salamanders, snakes, creatures who had endured in burrows and riverbanks or deep holes.

New steam billows upward as the riverbanks of melted steel and concrete flow into water.

The crash field expanded in a nanosecond to fill every square millimeter of the ship, cushioning us and keeping us absolutely immobile as the spacecraft plunged into the river, bounced off the bottom mud, fired its fusion engine-creating a giant plume of steam-and plowed ahead relentlessly through mud, steam, water, and debris from the imploding riverbanks until the ship fulfilled the last command given to it-pass through the farcaster portal.

Those tunnels had fallen into decay more than two centuries ago, the water boiling away in the low pressure, the thin methane-ammonia atmosphere of the planet rushing in to fill the empty riverbanks and shattered Perspex tubes.

There were no more riverbanks or visible tunnels here than there had been in our earlier stretch of river, but at least the river appeared to keep running.

The riverbanks were of red rock, striated like wide, gradual steps climbing up from the water.

Here she could keep close enough to the riverbanks to avoid getting lost.

Where the snow hadn't drifted too deeply against the riverbanks, she even caught glimpses of the snocles through the trees.

Lately a group calling itself the River Pack has taken a long stretch along the riverbanks and is levying such high passage fees that they have effectively cut this city off from supply.

The warship and the Marines would have taken the goddam riverbanks, and the MPs could hold it for us.

It’s easy to point at other men, conveniently dead, starting with the ones who first scooped up mud from riverbanks to catch the scent of a source.

Her stiffness reminded me of all the fish lying curved and stiff on the riverbanks, flaking in the sun like old white bars of soap.

Through the sheltering leaves as dawn came, he could see the riverbanks from which he had been brushed.

After five thousand years of human habitation there were less than three hundred thousand people in the whole continent—only one person for every twenty-five square kilometers—and most of them were concentrated around the coasts, the riverbanks, and lakes.

No village children played with me, so I explored the riverbanks, fishing and inventing playmates in my mind.