The Blackwater runs low in summer, hence the name Baile an tSratha, town of the stream or dried-up river.

This finger of the sea is all that's left of it, but you can see the banks of it--like a dried-up river, you see?

Some of them were landscapes: a stretch of rural road, a bridge across a dried-up river, a dusty village with flames bubbling from some of the houses.

About half a mile away, in a small clearing near the bank of an almost dried-up river, a leopard had made a kill.

Templar is a large city in northeastern Arizona, on the banks of a dried-up river.

She follows her brother, standing in the dried-up river.

Martell Webster found himself staring out the bus window for seven hours, watching his career crawl past desolate farms and dried-up rivers.

He thinks of Oil Bill's plan, and of the detritus that will scud across the dried-up river.

There was a low parapet overlooking the dried-up river.

The people who were chased out of Mershing, now gathered by the bank of a dried-up river a few miles away in Menawashei, know the problem better than most.