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

There were downed tree limbs, debris and rivulets of water in the streets of Orlando, which experienced significant flooding six weeks ago from Hurricane Ian.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

Then, just at dusk, the sky opened, and it began to rain—not li^it spring showers, but cold, soaking torrents of rain, streaming down her face, icicling rivulets down her chest and legs.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson