How to Use streambed in a Sentence

streambed

noun
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  • More than 200 Doug fir logs will be placed along about a mile of streambed.
    — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The streambed was orange, as if the rocks had been stained with carrot juice.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Removing the dams would allow the salmon to lay eggs on miles of streambeds.
    — Julia Duin, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Chevron corralled the oil in a dry streambed, and within days the flow petered out.
    — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Pink eggs dot the streambed, like pearls from a broken necklace.
    — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Use a slab of stone to span a dry streambed or prop it up on rocks for a welcoming bench.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The drive was a long one, though the majesty of the landscape made time pass fast: little streambeds, large bluffs, groves of huge Joshua trees.
    — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The rocks along the paths bear traces of Pleistocene glaciers; salamanders inhabit the streambeds; and hawks soar above the leaf canopy.
    — Eve M. Kahn, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Georgia Avenue’s busy traffic thrummed at one end of the park while, at the other, birds flitted in the trees along a streambed.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The spring disappeared during one of the hottest, driest years on record, leaving a sandy streambed.
    — azcentral, 15 Apr. 2021
  • After a mile the sandy streambed squeezes between towers of black cinders.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Foraker and her classmates searched the cave's streambed, but the ring was never recovered.
    — Fox News, 10 May 2018
  • The bridge is in the Franklin Hills with accompanying gardens and, below it, a dry streambed.
    — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • From there, pick a route through the streambed for another mile, rock hopping and scrambling over boulders.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Black cardamom, known as thao qua, grows along streambeds in high-elevation forests, under the canopy of tall trees.
    — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The trail meanders, rising out of the streambed to skirt some boulders, then dropping back down onto the small gravel.
    — Bruce Whiting, idahostatesman, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Its streambed is lined with willows and brush and is nearly impossible to fish.
    — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • At the bottoms of several pages are short explanations of such things as how salmon spawn, how frogs found the creek and how small rocks protect the soil under the streambed.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2017
  • The troop was meandering in the midday heat and descended down the bank of a dry streambed into some bad luck: a half-asleep lioness.
    — Robert Sapolsky, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • By now the erosion had become so menacing that the state gave permission to plant some native dogwood and willow in the streambed.
    — Dean Paton, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • For long hours the farmers silently navigated the streambeds, stopping only to drink water and wipe their brows.
    — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • McLean says to find a depression in the topography with no vegetation, such as a roadway with a ditch or a streambed.
    — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 26 June 2018
  • Salmon, which begin their life cycle in streambeds, migrate to the ocean as juveniles, and then return to their birthplace to spawn before dying.
    — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The stream, which never freezes, had hollowed out a deep icy tunnel, and the group’s digging caused its roof to collapse, throwing them onto the rocky streambed and burying them in ten to fifteen feet of snow.
    — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • The old roads, some of which were first cleared by now-extinct eastern woods buffalo, snake around hillsides, along streambeds and across century-old covered bridges.
    — Stephen Heyman, New York Times, 27 July 2016
  • The latest concern stems from a planned NYC Ferry dock, construction of which, the city says, will kick up a toxic cocktail — mercury, lead, pesticides — from the streambed.
    — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Add places for water to pool and percolate into your garden’s soil: a dry streambed, swale or simple depression filled with mulch.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • But in March 2012, a breakthrough came when a hiker venturing near the highway where her personal items had been found came upon her remains in a gulch -- a dry streambed -- amid rocks, weeds and brush.
    — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 21 May 2021
  • The only other available water on the reservation is inconsistent, running in four major streambeds that are dry most of the year.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 7 July 2023
  • The slimy looking amphibians have long lifespans -- at least 25-30 years and maybe longer -- and live under rocks in streambeds during the day, emerging at night to hunt crayfish, other small fish or insects.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2023

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