runnel
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The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2019
Shy time that dives into the wings, too embarrassed to acknowledge the applause, dense, like a runnel attacking.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2017
Every runnel was a Rubicon where every ditch was a last ditch.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2016
A runnel of sweat curled down her calf.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2011
“There’s a passage there. Steep and twisty at first, a runnel through the rock. If you can reach it, you’ll be safe.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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