How to Use creek in a Sentence

creek

noun

• The children waded in the creek.
• The coast is dotted with tiny creeks.
• Maybe the boy had been pushed to the side of the creek.
  — Terrence McCoy, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
• 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
• Moore drove us up and down, back and forth, across the creek.
  — Siddhartha Mahanta, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2019
• 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
• At the head of the canyon, a creek crossing is cold and knee-deep.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The dog was perched above a cliff that drops about 100 feet into a creek.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
• Each of Britton’s home sites will back up to a green space and creek.
  — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
• Fowlks was lying in the creek, cradling his right arm in his lap.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 2 June 2020
• At a dry stretch of the creek, Shafer got out and stood under the trees, where birds were singing.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
• Most of the area's amenities lie on the west side of the creek, while dozens of houses are on the east side.
  — Ryan Randazzo, azcentral, 8 Jan. 2020
• They net fish at creek mouths to see how many are scarred by nets.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
• Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.
  — Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
• Smallmouth can be found in everything from small creeks to mighty rivers, to neighborhood lakes, to vast impoundments.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 17 Mar 2025