How to Use arroyo in a Sentence
arroyo
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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
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That’s why our day two sighting up the rocky arroyo was such a thrill.
—Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018
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Crawling up the dry arroyo, bellies in the dirt like common weasels.
—Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
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Far closer, a gang of 30 to 40 dark javelina barreled up a nearby arroyo.
—San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Native rainbow trout and arroyo chubs were once abundant across Southern California.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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