rivulets
Example Sentences
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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 • Dec. 30, 2025
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
In some instances, it drizzles down the canvas in rivulets; in others it amasses in thick crusts into which Bradley gouges with a stick or a rake.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
Garrett is on his knees licking the boulder, catching tiny rivulets that course down its side—and then I see that there are dips and indentations on the surface of the flat stone.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
