rivulets
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
In some instances, it drizzles down the canvas in rivulets; in others it amasses in thick crusts into which Bradley gouges with a stick or a rake.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
He saw only rain bending the branches of the hemlocks and running in rivulets down their trunks.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
