How to Use rivulet in a Sentence

rivulet

noun

• By then, rivulets of blood, thinned by the venom, ran from the puncture wounds.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• Three major rivers and a vast number of rivulets drain the plains of the country.
  — National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2017
• The rest will be sent downstream via rivulets, streams and rivers to aquifers, marshes, crops and the ocean.
  — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2017
• Up close, it is coursed with rivulets, beaded and pearled with droplets.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Flies buzz around the drying rivulets of blood seeping from the heads of two corpses draped over the hood of a Humvee.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 14 May 2017
• In the sewers and rivulets along the streets in the city of masks the rats ride in masks like passengers in boats crossing the Lethe.
  — Daniel Torday, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
• The pork is still juicy on arrival, salty rivulets running through it.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• But these little rivulets of a dark blue sweat were coming.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2023
• Little rivulets of piano trickle through the melody, wearing out the paint.
  — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
• Pools of it, rivulets of it, lapping lakes and freshets of it, in a green and timbered landscape — our eyes were always thirsty for the sight of it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• The blood supply to the brain branches left and right and then breaks into rivulets and tributaries on each side.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
• Pulpy yet precise, those red strokes merge form and hue as surely as any of Louis’s rivulets of poured color.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• The living room moldings almost feel like rivulets of ocean left behind by a wave.
  — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 30 Mar. 2015
• The crusty golden rounds are pressed with rosemary, rivulets of olive oil traversing their surface.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
• Deep inside, flocks of birds swoop around a single, gnarled tree, rivulets of water flowing from its base.
  — Stephen Ferry, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
• One left defender Becky Sauerbrunn with a gash over her right eye and rivulet of blood streaming down her face.
  — Liz Clarke, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• The rivulets, carved by rainfall over the millennia, are said to represent her tears from a broken heart.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• At the lower left, a rivulet of water trickles from a half-round wooden pipe into the cool darkness of a catchment pool.
  — William E. Wallace, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• But Calacatta Viola, with its rivulets of aubergine and burgundy, has done just that.
  — Elizabeth Sweet, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
• The sweat and grime belong to both of us; the blood, which has run in rivulets down my bare calf, pooling in the interior of my cowboy boot, belongs only to me.
  — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 15 Sep. 2017
• Water beat dirt into mud and mud into rivulets that curled and swelled around encampments.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• The abundance of water below us was staggering - long, narrow glacial lakes, bogs, small ponds, rivulets and rivers.
  — Chris Santella, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• Finesse the fixture The hypnotic shape of the 1940s French chandelier evokes the way a dollop of oil dropped into water breaks apart and floats to the surface in rivulets.
  — Tim Gavan, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
• Unheated, its complex taste comes through when Zabala drizzles on enough to run through the bread’s rivulets and add a golden sheen to its surface.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• The tiny fish had navigated what remained of the river at that time: a rivulet a person could often leap across, a few inches deep at times, Benkert said.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
• Sheets of rain had turned the steep streets of the historic town into rivulets, and the surrounding hilltops were shrouded in a dense, milky fog, known locally as Rousdon Mist.
  — David Shaftel, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Threatening me with punishment resulted in kicks, screams, and frantic tears that dried out my cheeks in salty rivulets.
  — Sari Botton, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2017
• The California Department of Fish and Wildlife shudders at the thought of a depressed revenue rivulet drying even more.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 May 2017
• A macabre Halloween cake drew attention for its black roses and petals on a white tri-tiered cake, with rivulets of blood-red icing dribbling down each layer.
  — Andrea Mills, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
• BuzzFeed reports that researchers found forearm rivulets matched an arm held straight out around 90 degrees to the side, for example, while the hand marks matched an arm held out at about 45 degrees.
  — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 16 July 2018

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