creek

Example Sentences

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Investigating the smell, she ventured about 50 feet off the dirt road, toward heavy woods, where she peered into a tree-lined creek bed.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

It’s tucked in an old-growth redwood tree in the backcountry of the park, in Humboldt County, where there are no roads and a creek presents an impassable barrier, Williams-Claussen said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The woman, whose name was not released, was first spotted in the creek near Fullerton Road by the 60 Freeway around 1:50 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

But the almost underground river wasn’t a brook or creek.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri