creek

Example Sentences

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Investigating the smell, she ventured about 50 feet off the dirt road, toward heavy woods, where she peered into a tree-lined creek bed.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

“Music’s like water. It’s going to get down the creek into the river into the ocean. It’s going to find its audience.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

She was rescued around where the creek passes Workman Mill Road near the unincorporated community of North Whittier, near the junction of the 605 and 60 freeways.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025

The utility recently installed water hookups for one secluded mountaintop community that had been relying on cisterns and a truck hauling creek water—a project Brewster said took six years to accumulate enough government money for.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

There’s a small creek of bloodred liquid coursing in front of us, serving as the boundary—and the entrance—into the creepy forest.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer