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

During the annual monsoon, rivulets of water run down the streets and into the swollen Bagmati River.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

I didn’t understand what was happening at first because her scoop-neck shirt was brown, and I couldn’t see the spilled soda until the rivulets reached her white pants.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson