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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The bank of a river.

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  • noun A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the bank of a river

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Examples

  • I still fail to see how being trained to rescue someone from a riverbank translates into diving into a cold river in which you can't see, swim down to a car that you only have a vague idea of its location, and rescue someone who may or may not be in the car and may or may not already be daed.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Conditions at the riverbank were a shared experience.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Conditions at the riverbank were a shared experience.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall.

    THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems 2009

  • Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.

    The Constant Gardener 2007

  • Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall.

    THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems 2009

  • Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.

    The Constant Gardener 2007

  • Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.

    The Constant Gardener 2007

  • Spate irrigation is called Deschek irrigation and it also includes the areas along the riverbanks, which are often called riverbank farms (5-100 meters (m) from river).

    Water profile of Somalia 2008

  • That sleeping bag on the riverbank will be a horrible place.

    A Rare Rant 2006

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