creek 的定义
- U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
- a stream or channel in a coastal marsh.
- Chiefly Atlantic States and British. a recess or inlet in the shore of the sea.
- an estuary.
- British Dialect. a narrow, winding passage or hidden recess.
creek 近义词
stream of water
更多creek例句
- The creek near my home is modest compared to some of the waterways I’ve loved in the past.
- With CalGEM’s approval, companies turned these into de facto — but permanent — production sites, even in creeks and ravines supposedly protected by environmental laws.
- The creek, which in the 1800s ran miles from the Temblor Mountains to the then-vast Buena Vista Lake, is now dry most of the year.
- Under state laws, it’s illegal to discharge any hazardous substance into a creek or streambed, dry or not.
- Despite the site’s long and dirty history, the water Kinder Morgan treats at its facility in Murray Canyon is good enough to throw back into the local creek – part of its remediation plan approved by the local water quality board.
- One cold October day in 1968, I climbed out of a warm creek on the Yellowstone Plateau and came face to face with a huge grizzly.
- The third eaglet was never found despite a search by the Flint Creek volunteers and the landowner.
- But he had later received a call from the Cherry Creek School District saying she was not in class.
- The hills of the remote Green Valley Creek near the Russian River reminded Giuseppe of home.
- West Dry Creek Road has a bunch of good Zinfandel vineyards, of which Rafanelli is, in my experience, the best.
- In a minute Bruce was back with his hat full of water from the creek that whimpered just beyond the willow patch.
- About three o'clock, as nearly as I could tell, we dipped into a wooded creek bottom some two hundred yards in width.
- I swung down from my horse on the brink of the creek, cinched the saddle afresh, and rolled a cigarette.
- Near noon I found a place where they'd cached two extra horses in the brush on Sage Creek.
- At times the creek was as wide as an ordinary river, at others so contracted that one could gather grass on either side.