fording

IPA: fˈɔrdɪŋ

Examples of "fording" in Sentences

The party trudged on, fording swollen rivers and cursing the wretched weather.
Down below a small herd of mule deer fording the river looked like toy animals.
We had, however, lost some time in fording the stream, and we had but the one glimpse of him as the trail curved.
He laughed at the idea of fording the Potomac, declaring that no living man or horse could stand, much less swim, in the stream.
We found no little difficulty in fording it, in consequence of the quick sands of which its bed is composed, giving way so readily beneath the pressure of our feet.
IKENNE, Nigeria — After driving two hours — skirting truck-size potholes, fording a flooded town and dodging a body — Pieter Swanepoel arrives at a dilapidated farm about 50 miles from Lagos, Nigeria.
On the 2d we succeeded, after considerable difficulty, in fording it, still deep and rapid, even at its lowest stage, and left it, passing through a large prairie, and finally halted at the entrance of
As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death.