rivulets
Example Sentences
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At Domingo Albacete's olive farm soil erosion has left rivulets of rubble and stone.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023
“You know how you sometimes realize it has been raining only when it stops,” Ben Lerner writes in “The Lights,” his fourth collection of poems, “silence falling on the roof, forming rivulets on the glass?”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023
During the annual monsoon, rivulets of water run down the streets and into the swollen Bagmati River.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
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
He squeezed it in both fists until it made little rivulets between his fingers.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
