rivulets
Example Sentences
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For those left behind, grief and uncertainty swirl together, muddy rivulets in a vast tributary.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
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
“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
The rivulets from these umbrellas flowing down the uneven floor of our poorly built church, pooling in spots.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
