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rivulets

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noun

a small stream; streamlet; brook.

Origin:
1580–90; earlier rivolet < Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo < Latin rīvulus small stream

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These days, hipness runs as thick as the rivulets of grease and blood on the streets of the meatpacking district.

Their faces and arms are coated with soot, and sweat makes small rivulets on their skin.

Moments later the air fills with the sound of running water, as the skin of ice melts, freeing the rivulets.

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These days, hipness runs as thick as the rivulets of grease and blood on the streets of the meatpacking district.

Their faces and arms are coated with soot, and sweat makes small rivulets on their skin.

Moments later the air fills with the sound of running water, as the skin of ice melts, freeing the rivulets.

As the sauce cooks, globules or rivulets of butter will probably rise to the top.

Neighborhoods here are ringed by mountains of garbage, often soaked by rivulets of human waste.

By late morning, rivulets of melt are trickling down the ice.

The saw blade bites into the hardwood and spits out yellow sawdust and rivulets of foul-smelling sap the color of blood.

It dripped from eaves and ran in silken rivulets into arid gardens and iridescent streets.

Shallow rivulets course nearly all the cool, humid valleys that cut through the reserve.

Most people find accommodations between the religious mainstream and their own sidelong rivulets.

Other ultra-decoration included rivulets of ruffles, the look of barnacles and pearls gleaming through chiffon.

Swaths and rivulets of succulents thrive along the path leading to the front door.

Rivulets of chemical corrosion, almost oceanic in their intense coloring, run down the sides.

Throughout the show, his stains and rivulets of paint are complex and moving.

There, the gilded chain threads were left to run in loose rivulets down the body.

The potluck has its own flow, converging with the tributaries and rivulets of neighbors' lives.

Angular pain races through it in frenetic little rivulets of motion.

Your makeup will have sweated off your face in gigantic rivulets before the a/c gets going well enough to cool the car down.

The trenches would need to be positioned so that they don't become rivulets during the inevitable downpours.

The side streets have rivulets of waste water, but new signs hang over storefronts that were shuttered by fear only months ago.

It was the current making lively rivulets along the boat's hull that had me intimidated.

There were frozen rivulets and beautiful ice patterns.

But alongiside the rivulets of multi-colored beads, there was also a strong trend toward the metallic.

He died under a dangling phone, rivulets of blood running from his.

Ink, from his cracked inkpot, indigo rivulets and dribbling deltas.

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Word Origin & History

rivulet

1587, from It. rivoletto, dim. of rivolo, itself a dim., from L. rivus "stream, brook," from PIE *reiwos, lit. "that which flows," from base *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).

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"It is from quiet places like this all over the world that the forces accumulate which presently will overbear any attempt to accomplish evil on a large scale. Like the rivulets gathering into the river, and the river into the seas, there come from communities like this streams that fertilize the consciences of men, and it is the conscience of the world that we are trying to place upon the throne which others would usurp."

-Woodrow Wilson

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