Definitions
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
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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
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Conditions at the riverbank were a shared experience.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Conditions at the riverbank were a shared experience.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall.
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Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.
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Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall.
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Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.
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Close by the riverbank are the historic garden and house of Carl Linnaeus.
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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).
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That sleeping bag on the riverbank will be a horrible place.
A Rare Rant 2006
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