rivulets
Example Sentences
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One pendant evokes the sea with its swirl of mother-of-pearl, spiral seashells and rivulets of pale gray leather arranged above a piece of bleached coral.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
At Domingo Albacete's olive farm soil erosion has left rivulets of rubble and stone.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023
It is a simple, powerful illustration of an American workplace, boiling like a pot of tomato sauce, ready to spit hot rivulets of grievance at anyone who stirs it.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023
He sends images of 15-inch-deep gullies rubbed into the sand by the rivulets that stream from the showers every day.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 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
