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arroyo

noun

Definition of arroyo

as in runoff

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Recent Examples of arroyo At one still-damp arroyo, the cast-concrete components of a bridge had been tumbled 50 yards downstream from their foundation. — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026 There are potsherds and petroglyphs all over, plus an old adobe cabin up in the arroyo. — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 Officials said Sturluson, 23 – who was experiencing homelessness – was shot May 1 after asking the teen and Curtis to stop firing into a arroyo, or dry creek, that was close by. — Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025 And while our street was close enough to the national forest that bears and bobcats were not uncommon sights, it was also separated from it by a dry arroyo and five blocks of houses in between. — Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for arroyo

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The board, after the hearing, indefinitely extended the stop-work order, stipulating that the developer had to take a number of corrective steps to address the runoff issues.

— Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
The runoff contest comes after Darline Graham was appointed to serve out the remainder of her late brother's term, which ends early next year.

— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of runoff

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The surrounding 23 acres the estate sits on are full of trails ripe for exploring, too, and take visitors past historic stone walls, cemeteries, and babbling brooks.

— Blair West, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
French doors open onto simple gardens and wildflower meadows that slope toward a picturesque brook.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of brook

Noun

In the spring, when the snow is melting and the springs that are high up in the rock cliffs some miles away are carrying it down full speed, the ditches overflow as does the little creek that runs near my cabin.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Though Sarnia’s industrial corridor is downstream from Lake Huron, several drainage ditches in the area are connected to creeks that flow into the lake, Corcoran said in an interview.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

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The company’s first non-Finnish CEO, Stephen Elop (a Canadian fresh off a two-year stint on Microsoft’s leadership team), did not mince words.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 13 July 2026
Similar to the millennial mint that's been making the rounds, Tiffany blue brings the same fresh, uplifting energy with a slightly more luxe feel.

— Amanda Le, InStyle, 15 June 2026

Definition of fresh

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The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks.

— Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
As August turned to September, the sun dropped and the first cold freshet of autumn rainwater flowed out of the mountains and tickled the noses of the salmon waiting off Astoria, where the Columbia meets the Pacific Ocean.

— Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019

Definition of freshet

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Those residents might also like to see the name of Indian Creek, another rill which traverses the county, given a new designation.

— Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
His verses evoke sacred rivers, fertile grounds and gardens bright with sinuous rills—a lyrical world beyond the inauspicious reality of its start-point.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025

Definition of rill

Noun

Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.

— Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Atop that mesa, hidden in a sandstone coulee, our campfire burned a hole in the darkness.

— Outdoor Life, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2020

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