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

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

Higgins is unafraid to, as they say, “go there,” taking us into the bathroom and elsewhere for spilled breast milk, rivulets of child diarrhea and vomiting episodes courtesy of her sister, her children, herself.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2022

She didn’t know if it itched from the rivulets of sweat or from the ants and other insects she spied among the squash.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty