How to Use creek in a Sentence

creek

noun

• The children waded in the creek.
• The coast is dotted with tiny creeks.
• Then find the creek bottoms, ridges, fence lines, and wood strips that connect them.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
• And, finding a place beside the free-flowing creek, mate.
  — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
• The recreation project will include amenities along the lakefront, a creek and a park.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2020
• The sun refracted against the surface of the creek until the water turned black.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• For him, this has translated into riding his bike to work alongside a creek.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
• The park is a great place to see waterfalls and amazing rock formations along the creek that winds through the valley.
  — Joe Songer | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2020
• Perhaps my age and affection for this creek of my childhood had something to do with the unusual dream.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2020
• The trees lining the creek were once littered with the tattered remains of plastic shopping bags and caution tape washed down from the city.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 10 Oct. 2020
• To get to the home’s foundation, Palomar has to cross a dirt road over a creek that during winter can swell up to 5 feet.
  — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Madison was tired, wet and frightened — but not injured — so Shlensky carried the dog back across the creek and to safety.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2020
• The two men became fast friends — talking often, taking their families to swim in the creek together.
  — New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• The homes stand on the downward slope, between the road and the creek below, and are generally unwelcoming.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• The property is nestled within never-ending rows of vines, surrounded by thickets and the area’s creek under the same name.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• Restoration work, including reseeding, is underway along the creek.
  — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2020
• Three trays of mail were found by the side of a road and in a ditch — not a river or creek — in Greenville, Wisconsin, in mid-September.
  — Calvin Woodward, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• The high repair cost reflects the engineering challenge of restoring the stone culvert that supports the trail, while preserving the creek that flows beneath it.
  — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The search continued the next day along the trails and the creek.
  — Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• Along the banks of the creek was a large, concrete box.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2021
• The fact that much of the canal is now a dry creek bed doesn’t help.
  — Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• See you in 2023, God willing, and the creek don’t rise.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• 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
• And the creek crossed by the trail is a great spot to hunt for fossils.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2021
• Overnight, the street in front of her home had become a creek.
  — Winston Choi-Schagrin Dave Sanders, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• The water in the creek a block away skimmed the bottom of the footbridge.
  — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The kids said the dog had run away from its owner and into the creek.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
• As the creek continued to surge, another section blew out, a few hundreds yards southeast.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• For the new study, the researchers conducted surveys at 13 tidal creeks in Elkhorn Slough, comparing historical rates of erosion and the otters’ population.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024