From where Nick stood he could see deep channels, like ruts, cut in the shallow bed of the stream by the flow of the current.

As he reached it, the earth crumbled under his feet and dropped him ten feet to the shallow bed of a rocky stream.

It represents the first sea shores and shallow beds of an ancient sea.

They even piled a shallow bed of sticks below a bridge that could be a sixth dam.

Movement of the dark mass in the low shallow bed of the case.

Closer to the mainland, such a shallow bed would long since have been stripped of its choicest pearls.

Inside, the room was quiet, the breathing of the man on the bed so shallow as barely to disturb the air.

In this light, and with this shallow, rocky bed, we had to look like rocks to a copter going any speed at all.

The tiny stream from the spring in the rocks had worn a shallow bed in the stone floor of the cave.

Due to its mountainous course and shallow bed, it is hardly used for irrigation purposes.