Work then started by building cofferdams to block the natural channel of the river and allow dam construction to begin.

Because of the debris in the area, we were strung out along a natural channel that the pirates normally used.

Below this is a short reach of natural open channel to the railway line.

After the burial the stream would be restored to its natural channel.

It had been just too tempting to take advantage of such a natural magical channel.

This creek is a natural channel which carries tidal water back into the sea.

Most of the slope was all right, with a natural channel requiring only touch- ing up.

Only in this way can we entrust the fate of these institutions to their natural channels.

He really thought, after a year, that her chief expression in life was finding its natural channel in household duties.

A lycanthrope is a natural channel for a spirit of rage.