The island is formed from a distributary of the River Shannon.

The opposite of a distributary is a tributary.

This Pearl River is the widest distributary within the delta, although considerably short.

Once a wave- or river- distributary silts up, it is abandoned, and a new channel forms elsewhere.

It is a distributary of the Irrawaddy.

The Meghna is a distributary of the great river Brahmaputra.

Also, the Munneru is the distributary of the Krishna River.

A distributary of the Danube, northeast of the settlement, had been transformed into a harbour.

The flux of Anjana and the distributary increased with water of the canal.

This is a distributary that branches off to form a small island, then returns to the mainline Fresno River.

There is another river of the same name which starts as a distributary of the Meghna and flows back into it.

A distributary is a branch of a river that does not rejoin the main channel; these are common on and near river deltas.

In some cases, a minor distributary can "steal" so much water from the main channel that it can become the main route.

Chilia branch, a distributary of the Danube.

Later, the distributary was filled up artificially, and alluvial sedimentation jammed the upper part of Anjana.

Slough, a stream distributary or anabranch, or in some cases, a regular stream.

One such defunct distributary is Wadi Tumilat.

It is a distributary of Lake Carmi in Vermont, United States.

By the end of the 18th century the Padma had become the main distributary of the Ganges.

The city is connected to the Mittellandkanal and the Elbe-Seitenkanal by a distributary.

In Australia, the term anabranch is used to refer to a distributary that diverts from the main course of the river and rejoins it later.

It is situated on the banks of the Hajamro distributary of the River Indus.

For the distributary in West Bengal, see Bhāgirathi-Hooghly.

The name for the largest distributary of the Ganges in Bangladesh is the Padma River.

The town is situated on the banks of a distributary of river Cauvery near Trichy.

Dams built on the distribuary of Vorma in 1858, 1911, 1947, and 1965 raised the level by approximately 3.6 metres in total.