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Recent Examples of rivulet But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat. Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025 Surreal images from the novel that could easily have looked silly on screen—a rivulet of blood winds its way across town, from the home where a character dies to his family’s abode, for example—retain their poetic profundity. Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024 Steaming rivulets of milky turquoise water flowed in channels beside the roadway. Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024 In some places, the rivulets had merged to form streams that had to be jumped across. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for rivulet
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Noun
  • Smaller brooks, ordinarily not containing flowing water, became raging torrents which could be crossed only by swimming.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 8 July 2025
  • Our guides had part paddled and part lugged Wells and me perhaps a quarter of a mile up a tiny brook that was hardly a canoe-length wide.
    Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • While traversing steep mountain trails and navigating undulating bent grass greens at Cliffhangers, golfers will drive carts through cascading waterfalls, cross swift flowing creeks, and wind through a cave system.
    Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • It is situated along a creek just off California State Route 2 in Angeles National Forest.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025

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“Rivulet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rivulet. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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