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Sentence Examples Perhaps a hundred yards into the trees, a wide, shallow creek drained from some unknown point in the forest into the lake. Last year a 3.5m saltie snatched a dog at a creek that runs into popular Kewarra Beach, just north of Cairns. Your father's summer vacation may have involved afternoons playing sandlot baseball or dropping a fishing line into a creek. Channeled and rip-rapped, the creek bears similar scars from ill-conceived attempts at pruning. This creek, popular with fishermen, also is a good spot to sight ospreys and bald eagles. This roadside forest is hut a scrubby mix of hardwoods and pines, with a wet smear of inch-deep creek running through the middle. I turned off the paved road into a dirt track, snaking through the thick forest alongside a bubbly creek. So I went down toward the creek, and as I turned the corner by the barnyard I saw him down below, moving along a fencerow. Suddenly the creek falls in a graceful sheet of water into a turquoise pool. I can't wait to bath here, I thought to myself as I slowly followed the lazy creek. As she went on to the creek and its pools where she could bathe, I took from my pack my Penguin edition of Don Quixote. Tenses are confused, verbs are conjugated and there's a creek to swim in to give relief from the merciless sun. The land consists of 30 acres of tillable fields, a creek, and hundreds of tall maple trees. We began the first seismic line on day two with an uphill washed-out creek bed of a trail. The plants were growing from several fissures in the mafic bedrock that underlies the creek. And he can't understand why no-one wants the mullet he catches in the local creek and tries to sell for beer money. The trail crosses onto the north side and continues downhill and east along the rocky bench above the creek. With the creek barrier now open and a solid berm built across the avulsion channel, the heavy rains return. As their name suggests, miners make their nests in holes along creek banks or in burrows. They prey upon the rainbow smelt, golden shiner, common shiner, creek chub, and mummichog, among others. Show More Sentences On whims, I have gone down to the bike path along the creek camera in hand, snapping away as mood and light compels me to. The location of the sighting was on a creek bank just below fast moving water from a shoaly place in the creek. We worry about our country, our billabongs, our creek beds, people who just want to go and fish, and they leave their mess. Besides that, a creek crosses the fairway short of the green and sees its share of misery. The creek was beautiful, crystal clear with an average depth of three feet, flowing through some lovely countryside. I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging. Fortunately my Nikon camera landed on soft tufted grass but my body was immersed in the freezing creek water. She met us down on the blacktop and rode with us through the creek and up the steep, rough road to her place. They are as at home in a mossy rock pool or muddy creek as on a spectacular wreck. There was a stone bridge curving over the creek leading to a wide mouth of a small cave. He is reopening a cold case from 2001 in which a 46-year-old Wichita woman was strangled and dumped in a creek. Dropping the stones he had been skimming across the surface of the slow-flowing creek, he reached immediately for the gun in his jacket. After Larken had refilled their water skins in the nearby creek, she began to build a fire. The young girl seeks refuge in nature, by walking through the empty woods or skinny-dipping in the local creek. So they all go on a boat trip down the creek, along with a bunch of Rocky's friends. Over millennia a crystal clear creek had undercut the slope to create the hidden canyon. The Thorsborne Trail is an ungraded trail and is rough with loose stones, difficult creek crossings and, in wet weather, slippery hillsides. Eventually the county bookmobile began stockpiling books for me, bringing them over dirt roads as rough as creek beds. Water was pumped by an old fire-engine from the creek to the quarry to sluice clay off the stone. She wondered why salmon were disappearing from the little creek behind her house, a feeder stream of the Columbia River. Show More Sentences American elm, honey locust, and box elder line the small creek, whose waters ultimately flow into the Iowa River. A container with fresh creek water made out of a sealed off and hollowed bamboo stick hung from his leather belt. In the morning we were off early, following the creek, a tumbling, explosive cataract swollen by snowmelt. In the August sunshine the salmon battle their way upstream against the fast flowing creek. A storm broke, sending them home early, but they got caught crossing a rapidly rising creek. In the mountains of southern Arizona, a creek bubbles down a wooded canyon, heading to the desert a mile below. The complex of ranch buildings spreads across a grassy verge above a tumbling creek. Over the next few weeks I sussed out the tide timetable and went down to the creek for a few hours spinning on a regular basis. Approaching a still deep creek all swam readily and buoyantly, constantly up-ending like ducks. I walked in rain and got kissed and saw bright green grass and heard a creek burbling and that was good. In the creek you're at least clearing the route for future highpointers, while the private bushwhackers won't follow exactly the same trail. John McMillan, who is believed to have named the creek in the area Scotchmans Creek, squatted and grazed cattle. This was occurred at a nearby creek where, Jim said, the steelhead and salmon were running. Fluffy white layers drape the branches of maples and hemlocks overhanging the road and the frozen creek running beside it. Then Joseph finds gold in a creek, first hides this from his family, then abandons them to go prospecting. Thirty yards up the creek to the right was a dry creek in which we discovered three little heaps containing burnt stone, charcoal and bone. Paleocene fossil outcrops abound in the glauconite rich gray clay substrata of the creek banks exposed beneath the deep rich surface soils. He made a weekly trip up into the mountains in the Gold Coast hinterland to fill up plastic containers with creek water. Residents wondered what had caused the suds, and worried the soap might have a detrimental affect on fish in the creek. For instance, kingfishers and sungrebes fly ahead and away from boats heading up or down the creek, sometimes for kilometers at a stretch. Show More Sentences They visited the area, replete with a freshwater pond, acres and acres of oyster beds, and access to a saltwater creek. Of these, bluehead chubs and creek chubs were the two most abundant species in the creek. Finally, we analyzed the spatial spread of bluehead chubs and creek chubs through time. Across the road from our house was a pasture with cows and other animals, and behind our property was a flowing creek that was our swimming hole. The court heard the woman passed out and was dragged unconscious from the creek. Listening to a flowing creek may be just the thing for relaxing on a peaceful afternoon. Indeed, paddling up the creek is the best way to get into the dense surrounding forest, which is otherwise nearly impenetrable. And the creek line is actually the creek line that fed the first farm or watered the first farm for the early colonists. In this case, the floor drain provided a conduit to the storm water sewer and a nearby creek or drain. Hooper led his men over plowed fields in search of a place to cross the creek. She'd feed Gypsy cold corn pones and they'd run a mile or so to the creek to play. With flood irrigation, the water table near the creek is raised, that is, the amount of water in the soil is increased. I never thought I would care about the difference between creek and brook, sea-marks and flotsam, guzzles and gutters. He said he's satisfied that because of heavy rains which flushed the detergent out, no permanent damage was done to the creek. Introduced species of flora like crack willows had choked and badly affected water quality in the creek. To reach the village the soldiers had to cross a small tidal creek running gently into the ocean. Shouts of protest ensue when students realize they have to ford a creek to get to the beach. Then during the spring months, the mesh bags are planted on creek banks during low tide. Recently I was wading down a shallow creek in what I assumed was fresh water. There is a tiny creek meandering among the rocks, which is also believed to have healing powers. Show More Sentences The equestrian trails are densely wooded, rocky and hilly with several small creek crossings. They rested by a small creek running through the woods that had started to become more profuse. Her lion tail flicked idly behind her as she walked towards the nearby creek. After hours of hard training, everyone took turns taking baths in a nearby creek. Damp mornings are excellent for this detail, especially in low areas such as draws and creek bottoms. Firefighters used a fork lift truck to rescue a stricken horse from a muddy creek. They turned away from the waterfall and watched the creek flowing, listened to it. Fireflies danced about and the creek water seemed to glow from the moon's reflection. Great thinking Julie, we would been up the creek without a paddle if you wouldn't have brought that up. That could only last a short time, and any service requiring samples would be up the creek without a paddle. And I'm up the creek without a paddle if I leave my daily medications, vitamins, eyeglasses, toothbrush or umbrella behind. In the 19th century, the area was a quagmire with a creek running through it. One summer day, I spent several idle moments beside a still, shallow creek near my home, trying to goad the water striders there into flying. The creek began running the color of old blood, poisoned by acids and heavy metals leached from the coal mines. At one point, we rounded a blind corner and startled a gigantic grizzly sow and her cub as they crossed a shallow, rocky creek. I grabbed a ratty towel from the outhouse bathroom and jogged away in the direction of the creek. Then he lifted me up and I could see a beautiful creek area which was going to be part of a wild bird sanctuary or something like that. Lower down, Galaxias maculatus were found trapped in the creek by nearby building works. Seventeen miles up-valley, a raging creek flows in clear to join the silty Soler, an unnamed peak filling the V between the two streams. A second site done shortly afterward was completed in two days flat, largely due to efficiencies gained in diverting the creek. Show More Sentences The Kickapoos quirted their ponies upslope from the creek bed, charging the horse herd and its startled guards. On the fifth he drove it in a creek to the left and almost broke his club hacking it out of there. My memories surrounding this creek are, it would seem, classic childhood remembrances. To the laughter of those around me, I marched him to the creek and sat down to remove my boots before pulling him into the water. An old family friend had hooked a lateen sail while fishing at a local creek. She'd found plenty of driftwood and deadfalls in the vicinity of the gazebo, enough to construct a crude lean-to on the creek bank. Bluehead chub, creek chub, and redbreast sunfish movement distributions were significantly leptokurtic. Over the next two days, the level of the creek rises but the restored channel successfully contains the flow. It took her to a small rivulet that branched off from the main rush of the creek. Trees arching over the banks of the creek are lit silvery orange by the glow of campfires and the night sky. The rolling fairways are lined with coconut trees, royal palms and tall pines, and a small creek bisects the course. This was on a nearby creek where, Jim said, the steelhead and salmon were running. The creek was low, no more than a few inches deep for most of its length and the fish were bunched up in the deeper water beneath the bridge. Gingin is located in a small green gully sitting astride a nondescript creek. Everyone accepts that the creek is environmentally degrading day by day, but no action is taken to arrest it. Next day the vessel was discovered in a creek at Ulbster on her beam ends with the sea washing over her. The giant reached down and took his son by the hand, leading him off to a nearby creek. Our guides then took us to a creek that was said to be one of the hardest in Norway. I will think of you, briefly, as we meander along the creek and take photos of the ducks attempting to rugby tackle their peers in the pursuit of breadcrumbs. Soon after I was judged old enough to accompany the adults on squirrel hunts, my grandfather led me to a huge beech tree on a little branch of the creek. Show More Sentences As at Goshen, these craft, because of the narrowness of the creek, had to be launched sideways, and then were often kedged down the creek to the bay. In February 2011, during a winter storm, a tree fell into a creek in Franklin Township, New Jersey, and caused flooding. As Gawain rides along the bank of a creek, he hears this sickening sound ringing from above. The engine, baggage car, coach, and chair car fell into the creek, claiming 96 lives and leaving only two dozen alive. She meant Plaza Towers Elementary School on the other side of the creek, which had been smashed to rubble and twisted beams. He awoke with first light, stumbled out, stiff and unrested, went to the creek, threw water over his face and head, drank some, and went back to his plane. At this elevation, the dominant plant communities are pine-oak-juniper scrub in xeric areas and sycamore-cottonwood-walnut forest along the mesic creek bottoms. I was taught to swim in the creek, and taught how to fish on the beach, and how to get sandworms, yabbies and pippies, which we used for our bait. In my memory and imagination, I always associate them with many picnics in many places, boiling the billy in their shade, by beach, river, lake, lagoon or creek. India cites fishing activity in the creek as evidence of its navigability. There were other falls, other cascades and exciting spurts of white water in the canyon, and also quiet stretches so clear that each stone lay as if painted on the creek bed. The creek is flowing strong from all the runoff and spring thaw. And since I live on my own I was up the creek without a paddle. So as if anyone informed on us, they wouldn't find the larger distill further down the creek which we had with the sugar and all the other requisites for that. Hiking a slope to the east, I rose above one of the world's great mountain scenes, trout leaping in the lazy creek and a breeze ruffling the spruce trees. The water rushed over and around the smooth stones and rock ledges that made up the creek bed, making small leaps and splashes, and murmuring constantly. Perched high on an escarpment above the Cibolo creek floodplain, this area was once an important hunting area for Apache and later the Comanche peoples. The job, located in an established, upscale residential development, required reshaping 150 ft of the eroded banks of a creek and armoring the site with riprap. Anya let the cool water run over her as she lay down in the shallow creek. After a lengthy and difficult approval process, Seymour has obtained permission to clear up to 450 lineal feet of vegetation along any portion of the creek. Show More Sentences The dams were empty, the creek was dry, all I had was two bores. The rushing water left a hole about 20 metres deep and 40 metres wide in a road near Salem, and a car that plunged into the crater landed on its top in a creek. A mourning dove cooed in the distance, accompanied by the never-ending drone of dragonflies and cicadas in the creek bed hidden behind the tall grass of the field. She was able to drink from a nearby creek, but she had no food. Straith said the creek is a habitat for coho and chum salmon, and both species had been observed spawning in the creek two months prior to the incident. The green is jealously guarded by numerous bunkers and a little creek that runs along the left side of the fairway before crossing just in front of the putting surface. The seven men had spread out and were riding along the dry creek bed. Find a shady residential street or a parkway near a lake or creek. Soon we'll be mooring up in a secluded creek where we'll drink champagne to the soothing sounds of water clucking against boat and the occasional splosh of a jumping fish. He earned his nickname playing near a muddy creek as a child. He was also well aware that many of the reservation's sixty-five hundred residents lived near the creek bottoms that provided pasturage and a ready supply of firewood. We followed a creek into the woods, walking in its thin skim of water. There was hardly a creek or stream or point of land along our coast where fabulous treasures were not said to have been hidden by this worthy marooner. But it seems that Dawson remains up the creek without a paddle. At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud. The creek flows from its headsprings near Clarks Creek Park, through the city of Puyallup, including Clarks Creek and Decoursey Parks, to the river. The creek is running, but it's as black as Baal's blood, black as the ichor of a god no one dares worship, and it runs like slow clotted goose fat. Karen had her apron full of herbs picked in the meadow near the creek. Five days ago, they were borne up the creek that leads out to sea, borne up like some all-conquering champion sportsman might be borne, and flung bodily at the bridge. Washing, a central feature of household life, could be done in a wash house or at a creek or stream, normally on the plantation but, in the case of smaller holdings, outside. Show More Sentences Once at the overlook, keep your eyes peeled for water ouzels in the creek. They would sneak along the creek to where it just passed the back of the farmhouse belonging to Jonathan Lawson, an uppity old hermit who insisted he owned the creek. They ventured through the old rust belt of inner city Melbourne and along the merry creek until they came across the outlet of a storm water pipe. Nearby, a smaller lake was created by damming a tributary creek. From the Colorado train that fell into a creek to the North Carolina collision, see more rail disasters. The site became a superfund in 1983 and since then some of the largest sources of contamination to the creek have been identified. As mentioned earlier, the only childhood task I dreaded more than fetching things was hauling combustibles, like paper, down to the shacks by the creek. We got the bottle of vodka, come down the creek and let's get smashed! You'd be able to kayak to work, or maybe spend your Sunday wending your way through a small creek down from the top of Mount Royal through Westmount and into the East End. The ocellated flounder and southern flounder also exhibited seasonal use of the creek, but in the springtime. At noon we had lunched off fly biscuits and apricots by the side of a swampy creek. The banks on either side of the creek were high enough to high center the long trailer house. Somehow, we'd become high-centred on a big boulder at the creek crossing. One back wheel was spinning wildly. When found, the vehicle was stuck, high-centred as an apparent attempt had been made to drive it through a creek bed. Webb and Veikko watched across a meadow of larkspur and Indian paintbrush, and behind them a little creek rushed down the hillside. Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents. Lord willing and the creek don't rise, we'll have that new barn finished in time for the harvest. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. Three months later, on 11 May, men from Rhuys found the ship in a creek with the body of Gildas still intact. Training walls are built to constrain a river or creek as it discharges across a sandy coastline. Show More Sentences With the coal machinery now redundant, a tidal creek named the Mere was partly filled in for a vast fuel tank farm. An attempt was made to sink a winze to mine the lode below creek level, but this was unsuccessful due to water issues. The bioswale design was selected due to the site's proximity to a freshwater creek that is an anadromous fish habitat. Enormous boulders dot the creek bed, and swimming holes beneath the falls tempt adventurous hikers keen for a cold shower on a hot summer day. The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool. Thus, A and B were along the creek at the footslope, while C was at the backslope and D was at the shoulder. As landowners settled the region, they began channelizing the creek in the late 1880s to drain the plain to the lagoon. Crews installed a temporary fish ladder so fish could migrate up the creek as they worked to improve it. The blackcheek tonguefish appeared to be a year-round resident species in the creek. Named for a small creek that runs through the 120-acre property, Tablas Creek is located 12 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Slippery elms are native to North America and can be found from Canada to Texas, generally growing around cool, wet areas, like creek beds. Known as Furnace Town, it was called the Nassawango Iron Furnace after the nearby creek. And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks. Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it. The glacial drip was already in evidence, and every creek in roaring spate. We'll be up the creek if we lose those files, so we should back them up regularly. He pointed out that the deep holes can sometimes be discerned against white, beachlike sand near the creek banks. Go early in the morning, and you might spot a small grayish bird called a water ouzel feeding along the creek bottom. A short oar is easier to use in a narrow creek or a crowded anchorage. Plain as it may be, the walkway does give kayakers and canoers, who have long clamored for access to the creek, a safe, legal launching area for the first time. Show More Sentences Dubai Municipality, collaborated with several other government bodies has accelerated the pace of campaigns to take Dubai creek to the list of UNESCO s world heritage sites. After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her. The giant steam shovel was to dredge the creek to a depth of two metres. Deer wander into the meadow, stop to drink at the creek, and sometimes come up to browse on the white Dutch clover we planted over the drain field near the house. As you walk creek bottoms and other drainages, look for large deadfalls. The nearby creek lollygags off round the next bend talking to itself. After pulling out last week with a pinched nerve in his back, he turned the air blue in the Bluegrass State when he pulled his tee shot into the creek on the second. It was located near a tidal creek away from normal human traffic patterns and was characterized with various grasses and a wax myrtle shrub overstory. Examples from Classical Literature I continued the descent, and crossed the creek to where the unfortunate Tulp was waiting for me. Some of the compact lime stone in the bed of the creek exhibited a striped and jaspery texture. Arrived at the creek, they found the shallow sand bar between its mouth and the sea all aboil with confusion. They had not yet mounted the abutment, and were then securing their horses near the bank of the creek. There is some question as to the advisability of your remaining on the west bank of the creek. We pushed and rolled him into the creek, and left the rest to the alligators. Between the two parties was a willow-bordered creek toward which each started for the apparent purpose of ambushing the other. The creek was attenuated and hesitating, so we left it and struck off over the mountains. On the 13th they came to the banks of a wide creek or bayou, which they had no means of crossing. The Indians who had killed my horse were retreating across the creek, using a Beaver Dam for a bridge. First we hunted the neighbouring hills without success, and then crossed on to the bloodwood flat which had appeared like a creek. The British encampment was formed near the creek, on a piece of open ground flanked on two sides by a canebrake. Ascended the hill which overlooked Waterford, consisting of a mill and a small creek, branch of Coldwater River. I bethought me, however, to try the creek which drained the coomb, and see whether it might not have made itself a smoother way. From the corella Lagoon the expedition proceeded north and discovered a large creek running from east to west. About an hour before sunset we arrived on the banks of a large creek, with a bed of couch grass, but no water. Had the creek been their only creditor the Carters would have been fortunate. We were toasting them at a fire we had made close to a creek, to stay our appetites. It came up from and disappeared into the creek, so I was sure it must have been a Gahonga. The remainder of cruft's division was to seize the bridge over the creek, near the crossing of the railroad. Show More Sentences The celebrated African farmer of Cedar creek, del., died, almost 118 years of age. East of Devonport, divided from it by a creek, and adjoining Plymouth, is Stonehouse. Before the sampan passed out of the lagoon into the creek he lifted his eyes. She saw doctor McCall idly leaning over the foot-bridge of the creek while he smoked. The next morning I rode across to the saw log, and up that creek beyond all the herds. The hills which bound the valley of the creek are basalt, sandstone, and schist. Andy leaped a ditch and started to get to the thin line of scrub oak beyond which lay the creek. This was the third creek he had crossed in this manner since he had left sego. The creek and valley of the durra stream are very beautiful, and the church especially interesting. Kate laid for 'em just this side of the creek and let 'ern chase him back to his tree. The plain terminates, where we ascended, in an escarpment of vesicular trap-rock, which supplies the fragments of the creek below. Then he strayed down by the creek, as I have said, to tell his grief to the fishes. The two horses pulling the wagon, a flatbed with railed sides, halted at the creek. So he went out with the Allo tribe once again and they led him up a creek to the place where the flying frog lives. It didn't climb until it got away from the funneling effect of the creek and into the river, then it went up pretty fast. All the way up the creek I had been hearing the throaty ghouw-bhouw of a great blue heron off in the swamp. A new Hakea, with long thin terete leaves and grevillea chrysodendron, grew along the creek. While at Nauset an Indian stole some trifle from the shallop as she lay in a creek. Along the foot of this mountain, a stream, known as sideling Hill creek, runs the entire length of the valley. But I say, stranger, what are you going to do with that heaver meadow below on the creek? Show More Sentences But if the intended victim, suspicious, should get unseen into the creek bed, the skulker could hardly avoid a fight. Ruth, let us get the net and put it right across the creek as soon as it is slack water. Elephints a-pilin' teak In the sludgy, squdgy creek, Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak! I said to the Thomas Cat, I threw in the gurgling creek, all weighted down with a smoothing iron, and a hundredweight of brick. The level area between the creek and the road was large enough so we could have softball games and park cars there. Some of the compact limestone in the bed of the creek exhibited a striped and jaspery texture. They mounted, swung their horses and loped off toward the bridge across the creek. He remembered that these huts of the gold-seekers were on the low-lying banks of the creek. So without climbing out from under the high banks of the creek he splashed out into the tideway, and started back. You could find a West-coast mailboat goin' home if you went down the creek in the launch. This was the village at the creek which I passed on the evening of my first drive from Maryborough. The principal channel of the creek was lined with a species of melaleuca, with slightly foliacious bark. Night found the army encamped on the east bank of Pine creek, above the site of the old Brier milldam. Crossed another creek, at twenty miles, with myall and stunted gums running over a plain in numerous courses. For a meal, they boiled some of the nardoo seeds, and then made for the main creek. Roscoelite is a vanadium mica from a gold mine at Granite creek, California. The latter detached a regiment to the Neuse road to guard against any attempt by the enemy to cross the creek beyond our right. The site is 100 ft. higher than the creek, on its NW side just below a canyon. The creek is navigable all the way from Oakville, and there are not more than twelve or fifteen dams in the whole distance. I have Osage orange on the north and a creek with native timber on the south. Show More Sentences A creek, flowing through the valley but walled over, empties into the Ouachita river several miles from Hot Springs. They met all together in the creek where the two brigandines were, which outwent their fellowes. They met all together in the creek where the two brigantines were which outwent their fellows. The creek bed was a withdrawing room in which to retire from the eternal black soil and level corn-fields of Iowa. During the whole of the morning they examined the creek bed and they found signs of the yellow metal almost everywhere. These streams have the same right of asylum, though in a less degree than pipestone creek already mentioned. It was platted at Moniteau Rock, below a creek of the same name, and at first was county seat for Cole. His counsel was quickly taken, and then there was a plunk as he sprang into the creek. Several horses splashed across the creek and their riders disappeared inside the portals of the pool hall. I rode with these two gentlemen to the coal-mines, two miles and a half from Pottsville, and not far from Norwegian creek. When they began feeding upon the tiny forms of life found in the creek, the Bully soon gained a reputation for pugnaciousness. There are other mounds on Richland creek, in the neighborhood of Waynesville. Every little while along the rooty, hummocky banks of the creek I would pass a muskrat's slide. Afar, families were seen fleeing on horseback toward the bed of a creek which they hoped to find flowing, but which had run dry. On the creek, sailors and oarsmen have finally thrown off their sou'westers and are limbering up for the annual regatta. In a mangrove creek a shoal of barramundi had been bombed with dynamite. Basra itself lies up a creek, and is invisible from the river. I spent the most part of all these three days in the creek, washing off the plantation scurf, and preparing myself for my departure. I remember spending hours with my next oldest brother, catching muskrats in a slow-moving creek next to the little cabin we stayed in. A creek ran out of its northwesterly end, flowing in that direction. Show More Sentences There is every chance that he left the bidarka somewhere in the creek. In poetry that winds and wends like a creek through a farmer's field, readers journey through one lovely day in Buttercup's life. Once on a night-long racoon hunt in the creek bottom, a mountain lion's scream paralyzed everything, frogs, whippoorwills, us. One feature of this fowey creek is its constant clamour of seagulls. It was the identical creek called Midas by Dunbar and Gibbs. A water-pipe, usually above ground, paralleled the trail, which he concluded led upstream to the bed of the creek. The boys shoved the rowboat from the creek to the river and leaped in. The fire-plug-horned buck fed in a wide creek bottom, surrounded by a harem of does shifting in and out of tarbrush. There was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went miles away, I don't know where, but it didn't go to the river. David Daniels was driving his farm truck across a bridge over a creek to check on his cows when his vehicle stopped. Every creek was a rushing river and every rivulet a raging torrent. Pebbles and blocks of pegmatite covered the bed of the creek. Find more words! 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