Riverbed is an English word with synonyms like bed or bottom. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Riverbed meaning
The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
Using Riverbed
- The main meaning on this page is: The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
- Useful related words include: river bottom, bed, bottom.
- In the example corpus, riverbed often appears in combinations such as: the riverbed, dry riverbed, riverbed in.
Context around Riverbed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Riverbed
- In this selection, "riverbed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dry, rhine, perai, usually, providing and snakes stand out and add context to how "riverbed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dry riverbed that after and a dry riverbed with stratified. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "riverbed" sits close to words such as aapl, absolved and adaption, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with riverbed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Encroachments in the riverbed have further worsened the situation. (9 words)
But large stretches of the riverbed usually sit parched beside the farmlands. (12 words)
Heaps of sand found on the Gundar riverbed in Tiruchuli taluk in Virudhunagar. (13 words)
Line 5 meets the river on Indigenous territory just past a location the court has come to know as the "meander," where the riverbed snakes back and forth multiple times, separated from itself only by several metres of forest and the pipeline itself. (43 words)
Riverbed is the only company with the collective richness of telemetry from network to app to end user, that illuminates and then accelerates every interaction, so organizations can deliver a seamless digital experience and drive enterprise performance. (37 words)
Much of the city was swept away into the Mediterranean, along with its inhabitants, by the massive floods caused by the collapse of two dams on a usually dry riverbed that bisects the city. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
An exposed section of the Rhine riverbed in Dusseldorf in August 2022, when the river dropped well below a critical depth.
But large stretches of the riverbed usually sit parched beside the farmlands.
He claimed Ms Bulley could have ‘easily’ stood up in the 2ft deep flowing waters, with rocks on the riverbed providing a stable base.
Line 5 meets the river on Indigenous territory just past a location the court has come to know as the "meander," where the riverbed snakes back and forth multiple times, separated from itself only by several metres of forest and the pipeline itself.
Much of the city was swept away into the Mediterranean, along with its inhabitants, by the massive floods caused by the collapse of two dams on a usually dry riverbed that bisects the city.
Riverbed is the only company with the collective richness of telemetry from network to app to end user, that illuminates and then accelerates every interaction, so organizations can deliver a seamless digital experience and drive enterprise performance.
We stopped in a dry riverbed with stratified walls and shared our beef stew with five passing Maasai boys.
According to local media, a sudden water supply disruption occurred for four days last month in Penang after a major pipe burst under the Perai riverbed.
An oil refinery is visible across the Kern riverbed from Rio Parkway on Truxton Extension in this file photo from April 2022.
Back at the San Gabriel riverbed, Diaz said living on the streets was getting harder as he aged.
Encroachments in the riverbed have further worsened the situation.
My ring will stay forever in the riverbed of the city of love, and if you want we'll throw yours in that river, too, so they'll be together forever.
Richard Dow and Jill Mather remove a shopping cart from the Haskell Creek riverbed during a volunteer cleanup of the area Saturday morning.
The Atascadero Police Department is issuing a warning to the public about the escalating practice of illegal motorcycle riding in the Salinas riverbed.
There were at least 40 people in the bridge when one of cables, which suspended it 27ft above the riverbed, gave way.
The Sariaya government has been limiting quarry operations to the riverbed as part of its flood control program.
At first glance it may just look like a just bunch of scattered rocks along a riverbed in Outback Australia, but it is actually one of the oldest man-made structures in the world.
Heaps of sand found on the Gundar riverbed in Tiruchuli taluk in Virudhunagar.
It is hurt when Ethiopia unilaterally blocks the Shebelle flow, which undercuts Somalia’s economic development, and when the trash subsequently dumped in its dry riverbed then poisons downstream areas when waters resume.
One night, Leo and a friend pitched a tent in a dry riverbed that, after a storm rolled through at a late hour, wasn’t dry by morning.
Common combinations with riverbed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the riverbed 23×
- dry riverbed 7×
- riverbed in 6×
- riverbed that 2×
- riverbed of 2×
- riverbed to 2×
- and riverbed 2×