creek
Example Sentences
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Investigating the smell, she ventured about 50 feet off the dirt road, toward heavy woods, where she peered into a tree-lined creek bed.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
“Music’s like water. It’s going to get down the creek into the river into the ocean. It’s going to find its audience.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
On Tuesday, she and two Ph.D. students took water samples on a placid bend of the river near a creek that had been swollen with sewage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Then the trail jumps across the creek — which I initially missed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
I never thought I would have a yard with a creek and big trees and blackberry bushes.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.