frills

Example Sentences

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And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Past gardens have included impressive boulder-strewn waterfalls, trickling rills and reflective ponds.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

Her voice is deep and sibilant, and it makes you think of the rills and the rivers of Clare, the county where she grew up.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2011

He did not see "poverty"; he saw rills of blood on his mother's hands after a day's work beating laundry in the icy Manzanares River in winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here and there it passed over other rills, running down gullies into the Withywindle out of the higher forest-lands, and at these points there were tree-trunks or bundles of brushwood laid carefully across.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien