rivulets

Example Sentences

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His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

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

From Reuters • Sep. 14, 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

Higgins is unafraid to, as they say, “go there,” taking us into the bathroom and elsewhere for spilled breast milk, rivulets of child diarrhea and vomiting episodes courtesy of her sister, her children, herself.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2022

A few rivulets of rain trickled from his hair, down his face.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini