rivulet

Example Sentences

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But they were bigger and faster, and he skidded down a slope to a little rivulet.

From Literature

One pendant evokes the sea with its swirl of mother-of-pearl, spiral seashells and rivulets of pale gray leather arranged above a piece of bleached coral.

From Los Angeles Times

Drying vents affixed to massive undulating columns blast air until every rivulet of water disappears.

From Salon

For those left behind, grief and uncertainty swirl together, muddy rivulets in a vast tributary.

From Los Angeles Times

At Domingo Albacete's olive farm soil erosion has left rivulets of rubble and stone.

From Reuters