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
It is a simple, powerful illustration of an American workplace, boiling like a pot of tomato sauce, ready to spit hot rivulets of grievance at anyone who stirs it.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023
In summers, Sonam would take his goats to the plains near Phobrang, where they ate grass on the banks of small, glacier-fed rivulets, he recalled.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2023
The orchids glistened, rivulets of rain streaming from their fleshy petals.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
