The name "Oxford" comes from the shallow river that was used to enter the town.

The wide, shallow river protected them from the other three sides.

He halted near a shallow river where ragged children were playing and women worked.

Without another word, they followed the shallow river north, head-ing back to camp.

A covered wagon makes its way through a shallow river.

More of them had crossed over the shallow river since then from the mainland, but not many.

The months that precede May can be relatively dry, and lead to a rather shallow river.

The fish lives in a number of shallow river and stream habitat types.

Once we hit the rather shallow river below, I just ran into it.

They reached a wide, shallow river and were ferried across.