Synonyms of rivulets

rivulets

noun

plural of rivulet

as in creeks

a natural body of running water smaller than a river

small rivulets trickled down the side of the cliff

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creeks
• brooks
• streams
• rills
• streamlets
• tributaries
• runnels
• canals
• runs
• bayous
• burns
• becks
• gills
• brooklets
• freshets
• arroyos
• bourns
• runoffs
• watercourses
• washes
• runlets
• sloughs
• coulees
• waterways
• channels
• billabongs
• races
• freshes
• distributaries
• cutoffs
• branches
• affluents
• guts
• influents
• kills
• cuts
• millraces
• millstreams
• confluents

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rivulets

The brush was flattened and rivulets of water ran back toward the sound, which was now miraculously some 100 yards away down a sloping bank. — Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026

Madly sentient guts spill from the sitter’s back in swollen rivulets. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026

His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026

In this piercing account of the American Dream in tatters, the magnitude of that dimension feels appropriate, echoing the currents of betrayal, fear and death that course through the film like rivulets of blood. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026

But rivulets of sunblock still ran down everyone’s necks. — Erin Tan, NBC news, 13 May 2026

Even after the leaks were plugged with cement, rivulets of oil persisted for months, and the oil spill’s ecological and cultural impacts lasted even longer. — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026

Hot stones are added, one by one, as the air inside gets heavier, the heat searing the nose and the throat, the sweat starting in rivulets that turn into streams as the smell gets more intense, the heartbeat swells, the mind races. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026

The elaborate network of rainfall, rivulets of ditches, and control structures became a sort of language for Van Lent. — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026