Thesaurus results for WATERFALLS

waterfalls

noun

plural of waterfall

as in rapids

a fall of water usually from a great height I used to like to throw sticks in the stream and watch them go over the waterfall

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Recent Examples of waterfalls Designers were clever enough to install a series of waterfalls that spill into the pool to cover up traffic noise from the pool’s location. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026 The country is scattered with swimming holes, including rivers, creeks, and springs with magnificent features like waterfalls and rock slides. —

Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2026 The waterfalls are located in McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park in Shasta County, California, about 60 miles northeast of Redding. —

Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026 Late spring offers lighter foot and car traffic in the village, waterfalls full from seasonal rain, a chorus of wildflowers throughout the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (the most biodiverse in the whole National Park system). —

Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 10 May 2026 The park offers waterfalls, picnic areas, recreational space, fishing, birding and educational opportunities focused on water quality. —

Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 The work itself will depict scenes such as flowing waterfalls and eroding winds alongside signs of civilization including cabins, keyboards, and vehicles. —

Thomas Patier, Artforum, 6 May 2026 Closer to the home, there is an organic farm, several restaurants and an abundance of parks, waterfalls, hot springs and other natural attractions. —

Roxana Popescu, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025 To see waterfalls, picnic facilities, and redwood forests near Los Gatos, pick a trail in Sanborn County Park or Castle Rock State Park. —

Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025

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Noun

Wrapped around a rubbery bassline that Peter ran through a guitar amp and played straight into a laptop, the song is confident and brassy, sauntering around as Kellie Eden’s trumpet cascades from above and the band’s co-vocalists provide pop harmonies.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
If one of Dwyer’s cascades, or any other process driven purely by the electric field, was seeding the lightning bolt, the proto-bolt would move perfectly in line with the electric field from the very beginning of the process.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026