creek

Example Sentences

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We have to go single file on the little bridge that takes us across a creek.

From Literature

Responding to residents who waged a social media campaign against the spraying of herbicides in local creeks, Orange County officials announced they will halt the practice in waterways near Doheny State Beach.

From Los Angeles Times

After storms, especially near discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers, the water can be contaminated with E. coli, trash, chemicals and other public health hazards.

From Los Angeles Times

Their effort has exposed tensions between people who see the waterways as natural creeks and county officials who see them as flood channels.

From Los Angeles Times

Later, when asked what the family had done with the relics, Mother Fox told a neighbor that the bones had been “sunk in the creek.”

From Literature