freshet
Example Sentences
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All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022
Streams and freshets ran all over the Los Angeles landscape, and Arroyo de la Sacatela coursed virtually alongside the dozen or so acres of the Bimini Baths site.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2021
River, the San Gabriel River, the streams and freshets of a hundred hills.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2021
Since the town's founding, freshets have disturbed its tranquillity and productivity.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2011
The freshets had made a small sandy beach through which the pool flowed, and bright green watercress grew in the damp sand.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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