How to Use streambed in a Sentence

streambed

noun
  • Pink eggs dot the streambed, like pearls from a broken necklace.
    Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The streambed was orange, as if the rocks had been stained with carrot juice.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Use a slab of stone to span a dry streambed or prop it up on rocks for a welcoming bench.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Removing the dams would allow the salmon to lay eggs on miles of streambeds.
    Julia Duin, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • More than 200 Doug fir logs will be placed along about a mile of streambed.
    oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Chevron corralled the oil in a dry streambed, and within days the flow petered out.
    ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
  • They were scattered across the streambed, ready to be picked up while snorkeling.
    Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
  • After a mile the sandy streambed squeezes between towers of black cinders.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Its streambed is lined with willows and brush and is nearly impossible to fish.
    Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The spring disappeared during one of the hottest, driest years on record, leaving a sandy streambed.
    azcentral, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Foraker and her classmates searched the cave's streambed, but the ring was never recovered.
    Fox News, 10 May 2018
  • From there, pick a route through the streambed for another mile, rock hopping and scrambling over boulders.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Black cardamom, known as thao qua, grows along streambeds in high-elevation forests, under the canopy of tall trees.
    National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The trail meanders, rising out of the streambed to skirt some boulders, then dropping back down onto the small gravel.
    Bruce Whiting, idahostatesman, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Georgia Avenue’s busy traffic thrummed at one end of the park while, at the other, birds flitted in the trees along a streambed.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Participants will clean streambeds and trails, yanking weeds and restoring habitat.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • The rocks along the paths bear traces of Pleistocene glaciers; salamanders inhabit the streambeds; and hawks soar above the leaf canopy.
    Eve M. Kahn, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
  • For long hours the farmers silently navigated the streambeds, stopping only to drink water and wipe their brows.
    National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Under the state’s interpretation, all of its streambeds can be privately owned.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
  • By now the erosion had become so menacing that the state gave permission to plant some native dogwood and willow in the streambed.
    Dean Paton, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The bridge is in the Franklin Hills with accompanying gardens and, below it, a dry streambed.
    Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Salmon, which begin their life cycle in streambeds, migrate to the ocean as juveniles, and then return to their birthplace to spawn before dying.
    Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • At the bottoms of several pages are short explanations of such things as how salmon spawn, how frogs found the creek and how small rocks protect the soil under the streambed.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2017
  • The old roads, some of which were first cleared by now-extinct eastern woods buffalo, snake around hillsides, along streambeds and across century-old covered bridges.
    Stephen Heyman, New York Times, 27 July 2016
  • McLean says to find a depression in the topography with no vegetation, such as a roadway with a ditch or a streambed.
    Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 26 June 2018
  • The only other available water on the reservation is inconsistent, running in four major streambeds that are dry most of the year.
    Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 7 July 2023
  • In the streambed, note the sycamore and willow trees, interrupted by the occasional incongruous fan palm.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • In one battle, Bakke wanted to put larger gravel on the streambed so water could move more easily into the hyporheic.
    Erica Gies, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Besides, the injuries to the three victims found in the streambed were totally incapacitating.
    Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • As volunteers worked last year, black phoebes and vermilion flycatchers darted around collecting flying insects above the streambed.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024

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