A branch that flows into the main stream.
Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for.
1 Balsora was the capital of a kingdom long tributary to the caliph.
2 Hidden in the hills was a beautiful little tributary of the Beaver.
3 Two small tributary streams had cut deep grooves in the soft earth.
4 In every zone, population is concentred at the mouth of tributary streams.
5 The Miyanabad stream is believed to be a tributary of the Gurghan.
6 She ascended the tributary with all the wonderful skill at her command.
7 Judah once more lay a helpless tributary at the feet of Assyria.
8 The Madeira, another tributary , is also a river of the largest size.
9 Raglan Castle stands on a hill near a tributary of the Usk.
10 These were occasionally broken by smaller tributary arroyos of the same sort.
11 There is one tributary of the Orontes which deserves a cursory mention.
12 After an hour they arrived opposite the mouth of a tributary stream.
13 Suddenly she recalled his hesitation after they had crossed the large tributary .
14 The little Guadelle river, a tributary of the Aliso, was completely dammed.
15 For, approaching from the right by a tributary path, was the Poet.
16 But there was still the matter of the lake and its tributary .
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