rivulets

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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

On steep slopes, the water rushing downhill can accelerate, eroding soil in its path, picking up rocks and debris and joining with other rivulets of water to make a growing and potentially destructive mudslide.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 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

Puddles stood on the floor of the tunnel, and water dripped in brown rivulets down the walls.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau