fast-flowing

He never lost his nerve, never made a mistake even when operating in extreme conditions: freezing winter nights, waist deep in fast-flowing rivers, his position coming under enemy fi re.

Excerpt: The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith 2009

At least 11 people have drowned in Utah waterways since April, many of them swept away in fast-flowing rivers swollen by melting snowpack.

Yosemite deaths a reminder of rivers' risks 2011

Written almost entirely in fast-flowing streams of dialogue, they cut to the quick of what is lively and alive in both people and in narrative, the world of oral storytelling encapsulated in swarming vibrancy on the printed page.

New Josipovici « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Another fled into a fast-flowing river, pursued by attackers throwing rocks and shouting "kill, kill, kill."

Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011

The 30th may be more problematic, but one hopes that the fast-flowing Amazon will not swamp all those tributaries down which book-lovers who value the personal touch like to paddle.

Independent bookshops: a day in the life of Hampshire's One Tree Books 2011

Another fled into a fast-flowing river, pursued by attackers throwing rocks and shouting "kill, kill, kill."

Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011

With fast-running, turbulent floods of water, the amount of sediment can even increase to the eighth (!) power of the velocity of the water.72 In other words, if a large quantity of fast-flowing water starts to flow three times as fast again, it can transport 6,651 (=38) times as much sediment.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

As I squelch along the raised bank beside the river Arun, fast-flowing and the colour of dark brown tea, it's easy to see how Sussex people, according to no less an authority than the Rev WD Parish's 1875 Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, generated 31 words describing mud.

Country diary: West Sussex 2011

But just as their battery-powered radio brings them brief, ecstasy-making glimpses of the unknown world beyond their narrow borders, so does the coming of a footloose, ne'er-do-well Welshman Kevin Collins thrust them abruptly into the fast-flowing stream of 20th-century life.

The Not-So-Small World of Brian Friel Terry Teachout 2011

Mehldau often applies his hypnotic improv approach to Broadway standards, bebop, folk-pop classics or the music of Radiohead – and Thile's fast-flowing long lines, and cherishing of catchy themes within the loosest spontaneous flights fit that very compatibly.

This week's new live music 2011