runnel
Example Sentences
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A few rickety huts were plunked onto the mud, far from the runnels of the dropping tide.
From Washington Post
It’s outfitted with grooves known as runnels, for bicyclists to roll their tires.
From Seattle Times
All this lethal offal seeped and oozed into the ground, into the rills and runnels that flowed beneath our town, where we all drank well-water.
From New York Times
Reported the San Francisco Chronicle: “The sidewalks and runnels were strewn with the relics of a torturous month.”
From Los Angeles Times
My sturdy vélo de ville rolled over every type of surface and complained only when I steered it into runnels of mud.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
