1.   The river rocks had been worn smooth by the water.

2.   Each medal is uniquely shaped to resemble the odd shapes of the river rocks in the streams and rivers of Utah.

3.   In Florida and Texas, state agencies are surveying rural cemeteries, including plots of the poor simply marked by river rocks or seashells.

4.   Language smoothes down over time, like a river rock or a well-worn shoe.

5.   Playing on the frozen marshes, ponds and lochs, Scottish farmers first used smooth river rocks, in which they chiseled crude finger grips.

6.   River rock and shards of clay outline gardens where captive families planted flowers and vegetables to bring order to their uprooted lives.

7.   River rocks from Long Island Sound made up the floor of the cloister terrace.

8.   She saw, and later captured in her paintings, the simple elegance of ferns and fences and the rough-cut beauty of sunlight on river rocks.

9.   The argument would be that cave persons have gotten along just fine, thank you very much, with flat river rocks.

10.   The land near the Colorado River is paved with dark river rock deposited by ancient waterways over thousands of years and coated with a varnish of desert minerals.