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

Proceeding on only scant and unchecked information, branches of Mer rill Lynch and Shearson, Hammill & Co., among others, pushed some high-flying glamour issues that soon collapsed.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a rill, a rivulet, a trickle, no wider than her arm ... and her arm had grown thinner every day she spent on Dragonstone.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin