How to Use creek in a Sentence
creek
noun- The children waded in the creek.
- The coast is dotted with tiny creeks.
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Maybe the boy had been pushed to the side of the creek.
—Terrence McCoy, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
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The next day, with the match tied, Pak’s ball sat in the creek on the 18th hole.
—Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2021
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The search continued the next day along the trails and the creek.
—Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
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The smell of sweet water and clean soil from the creek.
—Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
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Along the banks of the creek was a large, concrete box.
—Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2021
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The help dyed the creeks and ponds blue and stained the fairway grass green.
—Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
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The fact that much of the canal is now a dry creek bed doesn’t help.
—Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2021
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Moore drove us up and down, back and forth, across the creek.
—Siddhartha Mahanta, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2019
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See you in 2023, God willing, and the creek don’t rise.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
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To the squawk in the bird sanctuary and the burbling creek by the old mill.
—Melena Ryzik Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
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At the head of the canyon, a creek crossing is cold and knee-deep.
—Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
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And the creek crossed by the trail is a great spot to hunt for fossils.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2021
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Overnight, the street in front of her home had become a creek.
—Winston Choi-Schagrin Dave Sanders, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
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The water in the creek a block away skimmed the bottom of the footbridge.
—Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
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The project will roughly double the size of the channel in the creek.
—Jaimy Jones, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
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Oh right, Joey rows her boat on the creek to get to her own house.
—Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 18 Jan. 2018
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With 7 pounds of max drag, this reel will take on the biggest brown in the creek.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 Mar. 2020
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The kids said the dog had run away from its owner and into the creek.
—John Benson, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
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But while Katie stayed gone, this girl turned up dead in a creek.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
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And then something told me to get out of this truck and pop out of it and try to run to the creek.
—Abc News, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
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May 27 to the scene of a truck pumping water from a creek.
—Joan Rusek, cleveland, 8 June 2020
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The air hangs heavy with the brackish smell of the tidal creek, and all seems normal for 4:30 a.m.
—Eric Dusenbery, ajc, 28 Sep. 2021
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Doyle, 69, owns a 12-acre farm in Edneyville, on the other side of the creek.
—Bruce Henderson, Mark Price and Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 30 May 2018
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Land owned by the city was acquired for the event and the track was set on an old creek bed.
—Mark Spezia, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2018
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The dog was perched above a cliff that drops about 100 feet into a creek.
—oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
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Each of Britton’s home sites will back up to a green space and creek.
—Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
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Recipes came from a tiny creek in the Appalachians and the rice terraces of Yunnan.
—Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
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Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.
—Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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