creek
Example Sentences
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Their effort has exposed tensions between people who see the waterways as natural creeks and county officials who see them as flood channels.
From Los Angeles Times
Later, when asked what the family had done with the relics, Mother Fox told a neighbor that the bones had been “sunk in the creek.”
From Literature
Not far from the college, we crossed a bridge over a small creek.
From Literature
Army Green Berets lumbered through a northern Swedish pine forest, struggling not to fall on their brand new skis as they dragged sleds over hills and frozen creeks.
On Tuesday, she and two Ph.D. students took water samples on a placid bend of the river near a creek that had been swollen with sewage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
