streambed

Definitions

Examples

• The regional water board is also monitoring Sandy Creek, the site of the streambed disaster.

• The department did not respond to questions about whether it has ever cited or fined companies that have spilled oil and altered the streambed in Sandy Creek.

• Chevron corralled the oil in a dry streambed, and within days the flow petered out.

• A web of surface expressions quickly developed, with continuous oil pools forming in the streambed.

• Morning dawned gloomily; there was a light mist hanging over the streambed, and much of the sky was turgid with clouds.

• Then they topped the bank of a wide shallow dry streambed and saw the remnants of other safari below them.