rill

Example Sentences

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My filly’s whinny, timid trill: I’m sitting by this icy rill, In wintry, frigid wild?

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022

Water, and lack of water, is a recurring theme, represented by two ponds connected by a dry rill.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2020

It’s hard to ascribe majesty to such a dirty, ruin-crowded waterway, a rill so narrow it can be easily spanned by a well-thrown baseball.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2013

Army Air Transport Command, has grown to a rill: almost 25,000 tons a month, as compared with barely half that in the good old days of the bad old Burma Road.

From Time Magazine Archive

He returned to the bank, close to where the rill from the spring trickled out into the River.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien