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
“I do things more Pop,” he says, standing in the guest bathroom on the top floor, which has a mirrored mosaic that appears to run down the wall like rivulets of water.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
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
A fur of red dust gathered on the curly hairs of his forearms, and rivulets of perspiration ran down his temples.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
