rivulets
Example Sentences
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At Domingo Albacete's olive farm soil erosion has left rivulets of rubble and stone.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023
“You know how you sometimes realize it has been raining only when it stops,” Ben Lerner writes in “The Lights,” his fourth collection of poems, “silence falling on the roof, forming rivulets on the glass?”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 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
He runs to the creek, soaking his handkerchief and squeezing it out on top of my knee, rinsing away rivulets of dirt.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
