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  • noun Plural form of riverbank.

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Examples

  • The valuable timber growing on the riverbanks is diminishing from unregulated logging.

    Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests 2008

  • Mr Kiernan labelled riverbanks as rubbish "hot spots".

    Star News Group 2010

  • In some drier areas it is confined to sites such as riverbanks with available groundwater.

    Chapter 7 1983

  • I think Thoreau's great insight, and his poetic method too, was to perceive the interaction of different systems: how the seasons affect water levels, how animals propagate seeds, how one growth of forest trees succeeds the previous one, how the lake affects the shore or the river the riverbanks, and most centrally how the life he led shaped Henry David Thoreau and vice versa.

    Guest posts 2010

  • Soli gives us breathtaking images, not just the ones of war but just as memorable scenes such as the young women singing love songs on the riverbanks, the tiger appearing like a dream image in a high mountain clearing.

    Advance reader reviews of The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli. 2010

  • The Kudzu-wrapped riverbanks seemed to shift, vines squeaking as they passed over one another, knots tightening beneath.

    Invasive Species Susan Rukeyser 2011

  • The state-run Mines and Geosciences Bureau MGB said it had warned authorities in the area last year about the need to relocate families living along riverbanks that swelled after one month's worth of rainfall fell over the weekend.

    Philippines declares state of calamity as storm toll nears 1,000 2011

  • I think Thoreau's great insight, and his poetic method too, was to perceive the interaction of different systems: how the seasons affect water levels, how animals propagate seeds, how one growth of forest trees succeeds the previous one, how the lake affects the shore or the river the riverbanks, and most centrally how the life he led shaped Henry David Thoreau and vice versa.

    A Conversation with Damion Searls about Thoreau's Journal 2009

  • If not intimated by the Jordanian and Israeli soldiers watching from the riverbanks, a pilgrim could easily swim -- in fact float -- to the other country.

    Rachel Havrelock: Christian Pilgrimage And Middle Eastern Water Scarcity Rachel Havrelock 2012

  • If not intimated by the Jordanian and Israeli soldiers watching from the riverbanks, a pilgrim could easily swim -- in fact float -- to the other country.

    Rachel Havrelock: Christian Pilgrimage And Middle Eastern Water Scarcity Rachel Havrelock 2012

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