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
Suddenly "transhumanized," the poet is swiftly borne upward through the heavens as "a falling rill that plunges from a mountain to the depths."
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
