freshet

Example Sentences

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All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering.

From New York Times

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

River, the San Gabriel River, the streams and freshets of a hundred hills.

From Los Angeles Times

Or, they might be narratives from which I might break free, like a crab molting its shell, a seed floating on a freshet, a lizard jettisoning its tail to escape.

From New York Times

Its tiny seeds will float atop the current of a spring freshet, and, waterborne to a sandy beach, sprout within 24 hours of hitting even the barest cobble.

From Seattle Times