rivulets
Example Sentences
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At Domingo Albacete's olive farm soil erosion has left rivulets of rubble and stone.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023
“You know how you sometimes realize it has been raining only when it stops,” Ben Lerner writes in “The Lights,” his fourth collection of poems, “silence falling on the roof, forming rivulets on the glass?”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 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
He sends images of 15-inch-deep gullies rubbed into the sand by the rivulets that stream from the showers every day.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2022
He stood up, rivulets of water pooling at his feet, a colossal grass stain up the side of his suit.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
