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Rivulet

British pronunciation/ɹˈɪvjʊlət/
American pronunciation/ɹˈɪvjʊlət/
Rivulet
[NOUN]
1

a small stream

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Examples
1Under my jacket rivulets of perspiration are making their way down my dress-for-success blouse.
2You can see the sheen of the melt there, and the water is kind of aggregating into different little rivulets, and then they kind of work their way deeper into channels.
3They watch us as a rivulet of saliva leaks slowly from the corner of our mouth and rush to wipe it away as if dabbing at a precious canvas, then indulgently stroke the fine soft hairs on our delicate scalps.
4They became experts at directing water in the dry landscape, building long canals and rivulets of stone, and soon began to expand their settlements into the foothills and the mountain valleys of the Andes.
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