Thesaurus results for RUNNEL

runnel

noun

ˈrə-nᵊl

Definition of runnel

as in creek

a natural body of running water smaller than a river the fugitive made use of local runnels to throw the bloodhounds off his scent

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Recent Examples of runnel Water fun will be a big draw, whether observing the natural pond-like runnel feature or the chutes of tumbling water and inch-deep pools safe to play in. — Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2022 Designed by Louis Kahn for Jonas Salk, who created the polio vaccine, the complex sits on a shelf above the Pacific, a symmetrical white piazza flanked by buildings that are angled like a theater’s wings and bisected by a narrow runnel. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021 In summer, runoff from cloudbursts etches into the softer limestones and sluices through the deep runnels. — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019 The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains. — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019

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Noun

The trailhead was twenty minutes up a rutted jeep track, through a creek and a pine forest.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
The couple remembered going up and down the creek several times looking in the hopes of finding him when he was reported missing.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of creek

Noun

Both Maxwell and the brook were headed to the same place, north to Lake Ontario.

— James Whorton Jr, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2026
Was hearing Roland Hayes and, in time, other inspiring artists sing Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann songs like being beckoned by a musical brook to trust her instincts and follow its unlikely path?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

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