freshet

noun

Definition of freshetnext
as in runoff

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Recent Examples of freshet Two and a half feet of rain beat down upon the face of the San Gabriels, wiping out the rustic resorts wedged into the canyons, and chuting runoff waters down onto the plain along ancient dry rivulets and freshets and canyons that Angelenos had forgotten or never known about. — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023 The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks. — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020 As August turned to September, the sun dropped and the first cold freshet of autumn rainwater flowed out of the mountains and tickled the noses of the salmon waiting off Astoria, where the Columbia meets the Pacific Ocean. — Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freshet
  1. runoff
  2. fresh
  3. brook
  4. arroyo
  5. rivulet
  6. creek
  7. rill
  8. streamlet
Noun
  • Most of the water in the Boise River watershed comes from snow runoff from the Sawtooth mountains.
    — Olivia Brandon, Idaho Statesman, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Water Conservation: Unlike conventional farming, where excessive water use leads to runoff and waste, Oishii’s system recycles a whopping 95% of its water.
    — Chrissy Tracey, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of runoff
Noun
  • Speaking of fresh, the filmmaker is already creating new projects.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Heart Eyes is better in its reviews at 85% fresh, and PostTrak stands at 3 stars.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
Definition of fresh
Noun
  • The mass-participation ball game involves two teams, whose players are decided according to which side of the town's small brook they were born on.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
  • These graves were on the south side of the brook that divides the site, and on the north side archaeologists found three more sets of remains that had been dispersed, begging the question of why there would be two different kinds of burials from the same time periods in different areas of the site.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
Definition of brook
Noun
  • And while our street was close enough to the national forest that bears and bobcats were not uncommon sights, it was also separated from it by a dry arroyo and five blocks of houses in between.
    — Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Following last year’s Bridge fire, which scorched habitat in the East Fork of the San Gabriel River, 503 rainbows — in addition to Santa Ana speckled dace, Santa Ana sucker and arroyo chub — were relocated to nearby streams, Evans said.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of arroyo
Noun
  • The body meld transforms into a mind meld near the end, when each woman shoots streams of shiny water from their eyes, with the separate rivulets crashing into each other to form a floating, fiery disco ball heart.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of rivulet
Noun
  • Those who hike the trail have the opportunity to summit Mount Washington, the tallest peak in the northeast, walk along a peaceful creek, or follow in the footsteps of history where the trail becomes part of the towpath for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
  • In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the local carpenter spotted pea-sized flecks catching the sun's rays: small gold nuggets.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Definition of creek
Noun
  • His verses evoke sacred rivers, fertile grounds and gardens bright with sinuous rills—a lyrical world beyond the inauspicious reality of its start-point.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Earthbound telescopes saw rills or gullies that later proved to be collapsed lava tubes.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 16 July 2024
Definition of rill
Noun
  • It is built across what once was a narrow streamlet with water so clean that the community used it to wash their clothes and bathe children.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The water vapor signal in that band, though, is small, like a streamlet.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
Definition of streamlet

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