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Recent Examples of rivulet Then there was a rare (now-deleted) Instagram carousel posted almost one year ago with a photo of Lorde leaning over a balcony in a black dress with a rivulet of white spit coming out of her mouth. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025 The body meld transforms into a mind meld near the end, when each woman shoots streams of shiny water from their eyes, with the separate rivulets crashing into each other to form a floating, fiery disco ball heart. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for rivulet
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Noun
  • The original one, fed by a nearby brook, has been out of commission for decades, and two others, installed by the current owners, haven’t been used in several years.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Connected blocks created a bridge across a brook and carried lightweight objects.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Locally heavy rain will quickly reduce visibility and result in ponding of water on roadways, standing water in low lying areas, and minor flooding of creeks, streams, and areas of poor drainage.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The trail headed into the shade and toward a wooden bridge over the creek.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Rivulet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rivulet. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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