small rivulets trickled down the side of the cliff
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Then there was a rare (now-deleted) Instagram carousel posted almost one year ago with a photo of Lorde leaning over a balcony in a black dress with a rivulet of white spit coming out of her mouth.—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025 Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.—Chris Hedges, Harpers Magazine, 15 June 2024 The body meld transforms into a mind meld near the end, when each woman shoots streams of shiny water from their eyes, with the separate rivulets crashing into each other to form a floating, fiery disco ball heart.—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025 But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat.—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rivulet
Word History
Etymology
Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, from Latin rivulus, diminutive of rivus stream — more at run
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