rivulets
Example Sentences
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One pendant evokes the sea with its swirl of mother-of-pearl, spiral seashells and rivulets of pale gray leather arranged above a piece of bleached coral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
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
He runs to the creek, soaking his handkerchief and squeezing it out on top of my knee, rinsing away rivulets of dirt.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
