Sample sentences for CONFLUENCE

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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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