as in brook
a natural body of running water smaller than a river
the raging brook of last spring is a mere streamlet now that it's July
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Recent Examples of streamlet
It is built across what once was a narrow streamlet with water so clean that the community used it to wash their clothes and bathe children.
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Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2023
The water vapor signal in that band, though, is small, like a streamlet.
—Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2023
The water vapor signal in that band, though, is small, like a streamlet.
—Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
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“Streamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streamlet. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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