(n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
(n.) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
(n.) Any turn or winding.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(2) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(3) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
(4) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
(5) No brown bullheads of ages 6 or 7 were collected in the Black River, while these age groups composed 18% of the catch in Old Woman Creek.
(6) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(7) No hepatic neoplasms were observed in fish that had been treated with sediment extract from Oakville Creek, or with extract from a reference sediment.
(8) Cheyenne-Arapaho, Comanche and Kiowa areas (located in the western++ part of the state) have higher alcohol-related deaths than Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole and Pawnee areas (located in eastern Oklahoma).
(9) P. aeruginosa was detected and recovered from all creek water and wastewater samples, but not from tap water samples tested.
(10) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
(11) Production of Kanagawa haemolysin was detected in approximately 12% and 20% of strains isolated from sediments and C. retropictus respectively at two stations in Hashizu Creek but were not detected at the other three stations.
(12) Amardeep Singh, of the Sikh Coalition, thanked Oak Creek's citizens for turning out in solidarity.
(13) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
(14) Although considerable differences were noted between successive tidal cycles, overall the creek was found to be an exporting system and transported a mean concentration of ATP (-33g), chlorophyll a (-66g), particulate organic carbon (-31kg), total suspended material (-344kg), and fixed suspended material (-195kg) during each tidal cycle.
(15) Over the next year he filled a conference room at the Johns Creek station with boxes of police reports, victim affidavits, and audio recordings.
(16) Histopathological investigations of taste organs of loaches (Noemacheilus barbatulus, L.) taken from creeks with differing grades of pollution demonstrate variable degrees of damage to taste bud structures.
(17) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
(18) The creek was 10ft above flood stage, spilling floodwaters that almost reached the stoplights at a four-lane intersection.
(19) Some of the oil remains trapped beneath the frozen creek.
(20) Police said Sunday that the body of Chris Kyle was found by officers responding to an incident at the Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose the previous evening.
Rivulet
Definition:
(n.) A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are in the garden, the sun is beating and a rivulet of sweat is running down Tyson's nose.
(2) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.
(3) The Burnieshed has been re-braided: forced into narrow rivulets it rushes and tumbles, waiting in pools it fizzes and foams.
(4) As long-time Willistonians and newcomers alike are quick to point out, however, the amount of oil sitting below the surface of North Dakota is enormous compared to the rivulets of gold once found in the Klondike.
(5) Heavy rain was running down Pardew's back in rivulets by the time Yoan Gouffran missed a stoppage-time sitter to ensure the manager's 100th league game in charge of Newcastle would end in frustration.
(6) These rich, blowsy flowers from which paint dribbles in rivulets are a metaphor not just for transience but embody too the sensuality of life.
(7) This is a truly spectacular spot to swim, so plunge in and cool down under the fast-flowing rivulets of the small waterfall, which flows over a cave covered with moss.
(8) Satyarthi forces him to take water from a plastic bottle and he gulps at it hungrily, head tilted back, rivulets running down his face.
(9) We have now got to that scene in the Brexit movie where rivulets of sweat begin to drip down the faces of the crew.
(10) The fashion aficionado had always had a dream of opening a luxury hotel and with its spectacular villages and rivulets, streams and beaches, Pelion appealed as an all-year-round tourist destination.
(11) At the same mo-ment he is "cheered by the music of a thousand tinkling rills and rivulets whose veins are filled with the blood of winter which they are bearing off"; at other times he eavesdrops on "the faint wiry peep" of the baby woodcock being led by their mother through the swamp.
(12) Professor Shakeel Romshoo, a geologist at Kashmir university in Srinagar, said new rivulets had cut deep channels in the mountain gorges of the region and floodwaters had inundated low-lying areas.