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a place where things merge or flow together — especially rivers; or a coming together- An unnaturally bright object comes into view near the confluence of two smaller streams: Fairbanks bus 142.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a symbol in one.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
- As Eragon followed her, he sensed a strange confluence of energies below them and also the minds of five people whose thoughts were closed to him.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- The two outfits gradually hunted down the tributary towards its confluence with the Brazos.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- In both crash number one and number three there was a confluence of mechanical problems and mistaken action by the pilot.Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
- She came at last to a confluence of shabby streets which she assumed from the detached quarter of her map was Stockwell.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- This singular accident, by a strange confluence of emotions in him, was felt as the sharpest sting of all.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- But I could not help myself; indeed, I felt her grief meet mine in some huge gushing confluence and flow onward with it even as I continued to rage.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Their early morning thoughts were stimulated by the confluence of great energy and minds freshly drawn from oblivion.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- It was near dark when they reached it, at the crossroads north of the great confluence of the Trident.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- It sounds more like, say, a confluence of circumstances outside of your control.Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
- Upon the Trojan plain where the two rivers run, Skamander flowing to confluence with Simoeis, Hera halted to let her horses graze.Homer -- The Iliad
- He passed through downtown and crossed the bridge that spanned the confluence of Greens Creek and Smith Creek.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
- And he came out into a great amphitheater into which jutted huge towering corners of a confluences of intersecting canyons.Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
- They were traced along the margin of the Mississippi, for some distance, until they took boat and ascended the river to its confluence with the Missouri.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- In New Bern, a quaint town situated at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, he stopped for lunch.Nicholas Sparks -- Nights in Rodanthe
- The trials were to be held at a new stadium on Randall's Island, in the confluence of the East and Harlem rivers.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- In the confluence of the multitude, several clubs crossed; blows, aimed at me, fell on other sconces.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
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