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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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Republican Bo French, who previously chaired the Tarrant County GOP, faces Democrat Jon Rosenthal after defeating incumbent Jim Wright in a May Republican primary runoff for the state agency that regulates Texas’ oil and gas industry.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
Cruz remained neutral in the primary and urged his party to rally around Paxton after the runoff.

— Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of runoff

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Both Maxwell and the brook were headed to the same place, north to Lake Ontario.

— James Whorton Jr, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2026
Was hearing Roland Hayes and, in time, other inspiring artists sing Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann songs like being beckoned by a musical brook to trust her instincts and follow its unlikely path?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of brook

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With two separate houses, a rushing creek running through the grounds, and a sauna and a cedar barrel hot tub beside the water, the sprawling estate gave our group a place to gather (or rather, frolic) between outings.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
Three 911 calls were received Saturday in Avery County at the height of the storm, one involving a hiker who was in danger of being swept away by a rising creek, according to the Linville-Central Rescue Squad in Newland.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of creek

Noun

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

Noun

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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