freshet

Example Sentences

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However, spring spill would be boosted, to help spring Chinook by providing something more like a spring freshet for young fish migrating to the sea.

From Seattle Times

“The play itself is a freshet of good will, a celebration of the indomitability of man, a call to return to the earth,” the critic Mel Gussow wrote in the Times in 1979.

From New York Times

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