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

Water clung to their eyelashes and streamed in runnels down their open faces.

From Literature