How to Use creek in a Sentence

creek

noun

• The children waded in the creek.
• The coast is dotted with tiny creeks.
• Both trout and reds gather around the mouth of these creeks as the water falls.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 14 Feb. 2020
• These washes and creeks often roil after rains but soon dry up.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 23 Jan. 2020
• Flooding of creeks and streams and low lying areas will be possible.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• At least five of the watercraft had been removed but as many as 30 more remained at the bottom of the creek.
  — Jay Reeves, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2020
• When those ponds filled up, wine runoff began pouring into the creek, an industrial brook that runs through the vineyards.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2020
• With the ground soaked, rain or snow has nowhere to go but into streams, creeks and rivers, then head south to the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• But in the distance above, a high-country basin shone emerald, interlaced with meandering creeks and ponds.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020
• Turkeys are infamous for hanging up behind geographic anomalies such as stone walls, fences, brooks and creeks, or even thick brush.
  — Matt Wettish, Outdoor Life, 5 Feb. 2020
• Some wine did make it to the creek, however, a tributary to the Russian River and Pacific Ocean.
  — Ellen Fort, Sunset Magazine, 24 Jan. 2020
• Most burned boats that sunk in the wide creek where the marina is located off the Tennessee River have been removed, Smith said, but some remain.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2020
• The majority was captured by winery pumps and drainpipes leading to vineyard ponds, as well as pumping of the creek by a third party company and Rodney Strong staff.
  — Ellen Fort, Sunset Magazine, 24 Jan. 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
• The smell of sweet water and clean soil from the creek.
  — Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• 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
• With 7 pounds of max drag, this reel will take on the biggest brown in the creek.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 Mar. 2020
• The kids said the dog had run away from its owner and into the creek.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
• But while Katie stayed gone, this girl turned up dead in a creek.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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
• May 27 to the scene of a truck pumping water from a creek.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 8 June 2020
• Many roads could flood and there could be major rises on creeks, streams and rivers, as well as mud and rock slides and debris flows, Schoening added.
  — Tina Burnside, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• 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: 13 Dec 2024