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
On steep slopes, the water rushing downhill can accelerate, eroding soil in its path, picking up rocks and debris and joining with other rivulets of water to make a growing and potentially destructive mudslide.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 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
The eyases crouched against each other, holding their feathers at slight angles that shed the water in rivulets.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
