as in tributary
a stream that flows into a larger body of water a small creek that is the bayou of a larger stream

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Recent Examples of bayou From playwright Kristen Adele Calhoun, Black Cypress Bayou is set on a hot summer night in Texas, where Vernita Manifold (Kimberly Scott) summons her two daughters down to the bayou with a secret too big to keep. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025 The office warned that areas along and west of the Pearl River should prepare for damaging winds while some bayou and lower river parishes should prepare for hurricane-force winds. John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024 The pursuit ended when the driver went off road into a bayou and was arrested, police told the station. Mitchell Willetts, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2025 In September, the Mail published photos of their low-key wedding in the Louisiana bayou. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for bayou
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tributary
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  • Unlike flooding, other techniques (for example drip irrigation) do not cause water to overflow the field and runoff into a tributary, where the nutrient pollution enters the wider aqueous ecosystem.
    Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • White water rafting, kayaking and canoeing: The Trinity River, a 203-mile tributary of the Klamath River, starts in the Trinity Alps and features calm waters and multiple classes of white water.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025

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“Bayou.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bayou. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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