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
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
Higgins is unafraid to, as they say, “go there,” taking us into the bathroom and elsewhere for spilled breast milk, rivulets of child diarrhea and vomiting episodes courtesy of her sister, her children, herself.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
I didn’t understand what was happening at first because her scoop-neck shirt was brown, and I couldn’t see the spilled soda until the rivulets reached her white pants.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
