rivulets
Example Sentences
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For those left behind, grief and uncertainty swirl together, muddy rivulets in a vast tributary.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
At Domingo Albacete's olive farm soil erosion has left rivulets of rubble and stone.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023
It is a simple, powerful illustration of an American workplace, boiling like a pot of tomato sauce, ready to spit hot rivulets of grievance at anyone who stirs it.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023
In summers, Sonam would take his goats to the plains near Phobrang, where they ate grass on the banks of small, glacier-fed rivulets, he recalled.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2023
In trickles, in rivulets, and finally in floods the water poured off the land into the streams.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
