How to Use arroyo in a Sentence

arroyo

noun

• Just below La Cachucha at the edge of a deep arroyo was a hairpin turn to the left.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
• That’s why our day two sighting up the rocky arroyo was such a thrill.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018
• Crawling up the dry arroyo, bellies in the dirt like common weasels.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• Far closer, a gang of 30 to 40 dark javelina barreled up a nearby arroyo.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
• So there’s Mars, filling the screen, its reddish desert revealed as a landscape of mountains and valleys that make the Grand Canyon look like a puny arroyo.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• Perks include a fireplace, heated patios, hot tub built into the rocks, and a fire pit overlooking the arroyo.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 14 June 2019
• Watching fire run through sequoias is like watching water return to a desert arroyo that hasn’t been wet in a hundred years.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 13 July 2022
• The area is part of an arid empire of Joshua trees, cactus, bobcats, tortoises and kangaroo rats hemmed by steep slopes, dry lakes and arroyos fringed with creosote bush.
  — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Predictably, a big crowd favorite was Orville Peck, whose boomy, lonesome vocals are deeper than any arroyo (Seco or otherwise).
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 July 2022
• Picnic hideaway: The adjacent arroyo is part of a matrix of other smaller waters, once part of the quarry waterways.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
• Native rainbow trout and arroyo chubs were once abundant across Southern California.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• Perhaps farmers had neglected to plow this strip of ground for fear that the arroyo would collapse, but for whatever reason, there was a small population of San Quintín kangaroo rats remaining there.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 1 May 2018
• My folk-song understanding of the river as a timeless tableau of placidity had swiftly been subverted by an appreciation for the arroyo’s defiant fullness — a fullness achieved not in spite of volatility but out of it.
  — Noah Gallagher Shannon, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017
• More than 1,000 different taxonomic categories of California native plants are arranged in displays focused on the state’s geography — from arroyo to redwood, canyon to desert, and meadow to woodland.
  — Jill K. Robinson, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024