Below you will find example sentences with "colorado river". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Colorado River in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: colorado
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.9 words

Words in this phrase

colorado river

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • colorado can mean: Places in North America: Frequent word
  • river can mean: A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in a... Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

of the colorado river 2× of the colorado river and its 2× along the colorado river in western 1× and the colorado river compact itself 1× causing the colorado river system to 1× curtailment of colorado river diversions as 1× from the colorado river and its 1× in the colorado river 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

the colorado river 2× early explorers identified 1× for example the 1× in addition attendees 1× in the colorado 1× livestock waste also 1×

Common sentence endings:

the colorado river 3× colorado river basin 2× a lower basin 1× across seven states 1× and into mexico 1× and its tributaries 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

basin 9× mexico 4× states 4× tributaries 3× upper 3× new 3× compact 3× seven 3× water 3× itself 2× system 2× present 2×

Related phrases

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Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around colorado:

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Just before it in the phrase index:

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Just after it in the phrase index:

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Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

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Same ending:

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Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "colorado river" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as of the colorado river, of the colorado river and its, basin, mexico and states stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with colorado springs, fall river, cross river, colorado springs, springs colorado and northern colorado, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with colorado river

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Early explorers identified the Gunnison River in Colorado as the headwaters of the Colorado River. (15 words)

The California Zephyr pulled by D&RGW locomotives along the Colorado River in Western Colorado. (15 words)

They are widely distributed in eastern Colorado and increasing their range in western Colorado river valleys. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

The forum, with the theme of “Reshaping the River: Reimagining Water Use and Management in the Upper Colorado River Basin,” will take place on from 8 a.m until 6 p.m. on Monday and from 8 a.m. until noon on Tuesday at CMU’s University Center Ballroom. (49 words)

This uplift has steepened the stream gradient of the Colorado River and its tributaries, which in turn has increased their speed and thus their ability to cut through rock (see the elevation summary of the Colorado River for present conditions). (40 words)

For example, the Gila River Indian Community will receive $50 million from the Lower Colorado River Basin System Conservation and Efficiency Program in each of the next three years for improvements such as new pipelines. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

The canyon itself was created by the incision of the Colorado River and its tributaries after the Colorado Plateau was uplifted, causing the Colorado River system to develop along its present path.

In the Colorado River’s Upper Basin – which includes parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico – the strongest precipitation fell in southwestern Colorado, according to data last month.

It was time, he declared, for Colorado to plan for potential curtailment of Colorado River diversions as necessary to comply with the compact governing the river among the seven basin states.

Under the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act and a 1944 treaty with Mexico, the United States has an obligation to control salt in the Colorado River.

Early explorers identified the Gunnison River in Colorado as the headwaters of the Colorado River.

This uplift has steepened the stream gradient of the Colorado River and its tributaries, which in turn has increased their speed and thus their ability to cut through rock (see the elevation summary of the Colorado River for present conditions).

In addition, attendees praised the move as a way to secure irrigation supplies for farmers and ranchers throughout Colorado’s portion of the Colorado River Basin.

Two-thirds of the Colorado River’s water in Colorado’s mountains before melting and flowing to about 40 million people across seven states.

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That could potentially include most of Colorado’s Front Range cities, which get roughly half of their water from the Colorado River and its tributaries.

They are widely distributed in eastern Colorado and increasing their range in western Colorado river valleys.

The Colorado River supplies 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming as well as a $5 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

Temperatures are undeniably rising in Colorado, Mr. Pence, and experts are predicting decreased precipitation in the Colorado River Basin.

The California Zephyr pulled by D&RGW locomotives along the Colorado River in Western Colorado.

The name Colorado was chosen because it was commonly believed that the Colorado River originated in the territory.

For example, the Gila River Indian Community will receive $50 million from the Lower Colorado River Basin System Conservation and Efficiency Program in each of the next three years for improvements such as new pipelines.

Livestock waste also the Southwest’s last free and untamed stretch of a major river—the Gila, a tributary of the Colorado River.

Region-wide river management rules, and the Colorado River Compact itself have been largely untested in court.

The Colorado River’s foundational document, the 1922 compact, split the river into two legal entities -- an upper basin and a lower basin.

The forum, with the theme of “Reshaping the River: Reimagining Water Use and Management in the Upper Colorado River Basin,” will take place on from 8 a.m until 6 p.m. on Monday and from 8 a.m. until noon on Tuesday at CMU’s University Center Ballroom.

The river Bellinger is referring to is the Colorado River, which is approximately 1,440 miles long, stretching through seven states in the West and into Mexico.

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