Rivulet

//ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt//

"Rivulet" in a Sentence (5 examples)

The Hobart Rivulet begins on the slopes of Mt Wellington, runs through South Hobart, and flows into the Derwent Estuary.

A rivulet of tears ran down his face.

Yes Madam I think you will like them—when you shall see in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind—

The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.

Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.

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