How To Use freshet In A Sentence
- There was nothing the matter with the director's plans on this occasion; every detail of the "freshet" had been made ready for with exactness and with prodigious regard to detail. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
- A meeting about the 2007 freshet and potential for flooding was held by the Township of Langley and the City of Abbotsford at Trinity Western University on Tuesday, May 15, and was attended by more than 400 residents.
- The springs and freshets which had been loosed in the course of the city's excavation had also been trained, and streams ran cheerfully down rough, natural-looking beds carefully inset into the smooth floors of passages and halls.
- Remember, the Fraser cutthroat fishery is hugely impacted, if not terminated, when the freshet begins.
- The freshets also provided enough water for large fish like sturgeons to maneuver their way upstream.
- The "freshet" above, an archaic term today, usually referred to a river overflow from a spring thaw accompanied by heavy rains, although, as in this case, it was sometimes used to refer to flood conditions at any time of year. Weather leading up to the Civil War
- Particularly high spring freshets would flood the quarries and put off the opening of the season.
- 'freshet' is coming down from the up country to visit us. Ten years on a Georgia plantation since the war,
- Nitrogen concentrations, which had remained level before the freshets, have risen, according to the data.
- The annual spring snowmelt freshets of the Fraser River system pose the principal flood hazard to those occupying its floodplain areas.
