Tributary

During the 15th century, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of Imperial China.

The Oste is a tributary of the River Elbe.

How solitary sits the city that was full of people! The great one among the nations has become like a widow! The princess among the provinces has become a tributary!

To celebrate the June 5 World Environment Day, diplomats from more than a dozen foreign embassies and international organizations Monday joined the U.S. State Department to plant underwater seagrass in the Potomac River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.

How the city that was once so full of people sits alone, like a widow! She who was great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, has become a tributary.

Graham Blake grew up on Sarah Creek, a tributary to the bay. His father and grandfather made a good living as watermen by harvesting, transplanting, fattening, and then re-harvesting oysters from the creek. It was an early form of oyster farming. In the 1940s and ‘50s his family could harvest 200 to 300 bushels of oysters each day. Blake says those days are long-gone.

During the Evans Creek glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch (22-15 thousand years ago), Winthrop Glacier extended 14 miles (22 km) north of the summit, where it merged with several small glaciers from tributary valleys north of the mountain.

The ice has been thinning for the past few decades. The western two thirds of the ice in the terminus of the Grand Pacific Glacier now comes from the tributary Ferris Glacier.

The great saphenous vein is a tributary of the femoral vein.

An earneſt Coniuration from the King, / As England was his faithfull Tributary