How to Use rivulet in a Sentence

rivulet

noun
  • In some places, the rivulets had merged to form streams that had to be jumped across.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Up close, it is coursed with rivulets, beaded and pearled with droplets.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • There were new sunspots and rivulet lines over her face, like an aerial map.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Along the side of the road, a small rivulet of water flows down the road.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The pork is still juicy on arrival, salty rivulets running through it.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Constant rains feed sparkling rivulets that make the dark basalt bedrock glisten and the sheer green slopes shine.
    — Tim Ecott, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2023
  • 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
  • But rivulets of sunblock still ran down everyone’s necks.
    — Erin Tan, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • The living room moldings almost feel like rivulets of ocean left behind by a wave.
    — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 30 Mar. 2015
  • Little rivulets of piano trickle through the melody, wearing out the paint.
    — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
  • His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • The crusty golden rounds are pressed with rosemary, rivulets of olive oil traversing their surface.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • The expanse of a cookie, its crumbly craters and molten rivulets, is a playground for the pastry chef.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Steaming rivulets of milky turquoise water flowed in channels beside the roadway.
    — Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Perhaps those latent rivulets reside in machines.
    — Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Several rivulets flowed lazily through the debris.
    — Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 abundance of water below us was staggering - long, narrow glacial lakes, bogs, small ponds, rivulets and rivers.
    — Chris Santella, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Calacatta Viola, with its rivulets of aubergine and burgundy, has done just that.
    — Elizabeth Sweet, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023

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