rivulets
Example Sentences
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At Domingo Albacete's olive farm soil erosion has left rivulets of rubble and stone.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
“You know how you sometimes realize it has been raining only when it stops,” Ben Lerner writes in “The Lights,” his fourth collection of poems, “silence falling on the roof, forming rivulets on the glass?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
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
