rivulet
Example Sentences
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Drying vents affixed to massive undulating columns blast air until every rivulet of water disappears.
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2024
Then there’s the lone tear that Denzel Washington releases as he is whipped in “Glory”: Two centuries of exploitation in a rivulet of damnation.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2022
Pierce the delicate noodles with fork or teeth and the prize is a warm rivulet of pureed corn, butter and fresh thyme: a rush of summer that lingers on the tongue.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2019
Menashe’s hummus is magnificent, a ring of silky, airy purée surrounding a big spoonful of chunkier, denser stuff; a green rivulet of olive oil; smears of spicy, smoky harissa and green puréed herbs.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2018
It was a rill, a rivulet, a trickle, no wider than her arm ... and her arm had grown thinner every day she spent on Dragonstone.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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