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

Footage showed concertgoers at the venue fleeing for shelter as rivulets of ice and water poured down staircases and lightning flashed in the sky.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 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

At about four o’clock, tired and overheated and streaked about the face with rivulets of gritty sweat, I stepped from the woods onto the broad shoulder of U.S.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson