Flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy.
1 The river current took it downstream, where it sank in this eddy.
2 With the cold water and sometimes-strong river current , good swimming skills are recommended.
3 The river current was slowing the Swithland rapidly now the paddles were stilled.
4 The river current in the tree roots laughed aloud.
5 Her shouts had been lost in the sound of the river current and steam engine.
6 A rowboat caught in a river current , straining against a rotted rope, pulling, tugging, breaking free.
7 Even in a particular locality, the average speed of a river current is just that, an average.
8 They dipped their paddles deep and cut across the river current toward the cliffs to the north.
9 Or she rowed about in her canoe, often with Pani, for the river current was rather treacherous.
10 And then the river current caught us.
11 And I saw a blur of the canoe as the strong river current carried it out of sight.
12 The ghost drifted away, her torn dress and lank hair trailing behind her in a remembered river current .
13 The boat, moved by the disturbance, found its way into the river current ; the fish was moved closer to shore.
14 A handful of the creatures drifting at the whim of the river current caught sight of me standing above them.
15 Near Gaylor's Cove, however, the river current was so swift that the river ice at this point looked thin and treacherous.
16 How glad we were to feel the river current as it caught the canoe and hurried it on to the rapid!
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