tortuous channel造句

• And here we must credit Mr . Spare with a considerable fund of fancy and invention, although the activities of his mind still find vent through somewhat tortuous channels.
• Three were double-enders (,, and ), a type of warship that had been developed during the war to navigate the tortuous channels of the interior rivers.
• However, in order to connect to many mining camps and trading posts vessels were required to negotiate the still shallower and more tortuous channels of the Yukon's tributaries.
• The first of Tubutulik River, like the lower course of the Fish River, is a tortuous channel through alluvial flats built out from material that it brought down from its upper course.
• With " Dace ", she tracked the damaged cruiser through the tortuous channels of Palawan Passage until just after midnight of 24 25 October when " Darter " grounded on Bombay Shoal.
• Lowering some boats he sent then ahead of the ship to take soundings, and by following slowly in their wake, Captain Kinnier succeeded eventually in working his way through nearly one hundred miles of narrow and tortuous channel and emerged into the Straits of Magellan.
• Near the one hundred and sixty-first meridian the north wall of the Kobuk valley recedes and swings around the head of the eastern arm of Hotham Inlet, while the mountain range which forms the south wall terminates abruptly at the delta, a featureless plain, across which the river sends its drainage to the inlet through innumerable tortuous channels.