rivulet

• A peculiar point about the rivulet was the fact that anchor ice had formed on the bottom, although the water itself was moving too fast to freeze Wading the stream was a slippery process. —  013 - Meteor Menace
• We went after it, with bared heads and silent tongues A tiny rivulet flowed through our garden; near this rivulet was a little round building, whose gaudy door I had never seen open From my earliest days, when I was unable to rise from the ground if once I sat down, the little round building had always been in my mind I had always loved it, always feared to be near it; I had so longed to know what might be within it. —  Debts of Honor
• The site of the farm where this scene was enacted is still pointed out; and near it runs a rivulet, the Gaelic name of which signifies "the burn of the young ghosts:" so deep was the memory of this horrible deed. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
• I was beyond measure astonished at this, as I had never before seen any water larger than a pond or a rivulet: and my surprise was mingled with no small fear when I was put into one of these canoes, and we began to paddle and move along the river. —  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
• It slides from the roof of the house and finds its way into the tiny rivulet, then into the brook, then into the river and thus finally reaches the sea. —  The Reconstructed School

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context

Word Family