creek
Example Sentences
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We were in suburbia, with plenty of open green spaces, woods and creeks.
Responders reached the creek bed Wednesday and “hit it pretty hard today,” Meris said, setting up a safety zone around the site.
From Los Angeles Times
The federal flood zone stops short of Kyndall Monroe’s North Carolina house, which is 200 yards away from a creek.
Los Angeles has taken a lot of water from Mono Lake over decades by tapping into creeks that flow into it.
From Los Angeles Times
The course passed lakes and circled horse pastures, gravel roads, rocky creeks, mountain vistas and hills so steep you felt you could stretch your hands straight in front of you and touch the ground ahead.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
