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Example sentences for "streams"

Lexicographically close words:
streamlet; streamlets; streamline; streamlined; streamlining; streamside; streamy; streate; streek; streem
  1. In an instant he had thrown the three picadores who awaited him lance in socket, and two of the hacks, lay dying, streams of dark blood gushing from their perforated chests.

  2. His throat was varnished red with little streams of blood which escaped from the barbs buried in his neck and from the wounds in his hide, in which the blue muscle could be seen.

  3. They were going to see the bull roasted alive, running mad with terror at the fire-streams that would be hanging from his neck.

  4. Little brown streams trickled spluttering from the pan; the dog, with ears laid back and tail tucked in, went scurrying round the room.

  5. But the man had noticed his movement of avoidance, and streams of genial blasphemy followed him across the street.

  6. Soames nodded, and the streams forced them apart.

  7. He was assured that during the day they would without doubt cross some of the streams which they had previously found in that section of the country.

  8. What a lucky circumstance that the team had made its way to the forks of the two rivers, and that they were now protected by the streams on both flanks.

  9. He has not been seen since that last flight, and as the streams are not only frozen over but drifted full of snow, it is not likely that we shall see him again.

  10. As the streams were still free from ice he probably found no difficulty in getting his living, and he put off the trip south as long as he dared.

  11. We found the travelling much better on our return, the small streams having subsided, and the snow so much diminished, that we could walk without snow-shoes.

  12. As we ascended the river, the scenery became beautifully diversified with hill and dale and wooded valleys, through which there generally flowed streams of limpid water.

  13. The salmon (the New Caledonian staff of life) ascend Frazer's River and its tributaries, from the Pacific in immense shoals, proceeding towards the sources of the streams until stopped by shallow water.

  14. It being late in the season, we encountered every possible difficulty on our way: the small streams overflowed, and the ice was so bad on the rivers as to preclude travelling on them.

  15. So on went Philip, and the High Sheriff of Hampshire rode before him with a long white wand in his hand, and his hat off, the rain running in streams off his bare head.

  16. So he avoided them, and punished his indiscreet courtier by taking a run and crossing one of the broad streams with a flying leap, then proceeding on to Winchester, leaving his attendant to follow as best he might.

  17. Two vast streams of people met on that day.

  18. The thirsty land is about to become streams of water.

  19. Moving tales were told of negroes swimming the swollen streams in order to get to the polls.

  20. The resinous pine blazed up, the pungent odour filled the large room, and from the lightwood sticks tiny streams of resin oozed out and dripped into the embers, turning the red to gray.

  21. In the last days of November a long rain came--a ruinous autumnal rain that beat the white roads into livid streams of mud and sent the sad dead leaves in shapeless tatters to the earth.

  22. Two streams may run in parallel channels forever if each persists in following strictly its own course.

  23. The streams were full, of course, and still made a great noise among the hills; but I observed that Alan thought no more upon the Kelpie, and was in high good spirits.

  24. Here Nature works in silence for long periods beneath the crust of the earth, and then, with little or no forewarning, bursts forth in uncontrollable fury, ruthlessly devastating with its fiery streams whatever impedes its course.

  25. The tears had run down, making little streams amid the dust, and certainly we were hardly recognisable to one another.

  26. The streams in the Gulf of Mexico are fed from equatorial currents and boiling springs, and rush on to the North Atlantic 25° or 30° warmer than the sea through which it passes, warming the air of Western Europe.

  27. The few streams were impregnated with a mineral poison which had an evil effect for a long time on the systems of those who drank the water.

  28. The water flowed sluggishly, as most streams in Cuba do.

  29. No tender light of many hues here streams through long windows rich with holy reminiscence and artistic fancy.

  30. Along the streams in the lowlands blooms the wild calacanthus, filling the air with fragrance, and here in season the wild camellia throws open its white and purple splendors.

  31. In the first place, the traditional presentment of the New Testament is not like a single stream, but resembles rather a great number of streams of which many have remained pure, but some have been corrupted.

  32. That there were two streams of teaching on this subject, which specially characterized the fifth century, is well known: the one exaggerating the Nestorian division of the two Natures, the other tending in a Eutychian direction.

  33. The Tradition of the Church does not take shape after the model of a stream or streams rolling in mechanical movement and unvaried flow from the fountain down the valley and over the plain.

  34. We will now consider that area of our beloved State from which arise the headwaters of our streams that flow into the Atlantic and Gulf.

  35. A robin I know of wished to build a nest, but could not find mud to put into it, for it was a very dry time, and there were no streams near.

  36. He is a real mountain lover, living on mountains, or in canyons, or the borders of small streams of California, Arizona, and Texas.

  37. Rain fell in torrents, roads melted into mud, and small streams rose with dangerous rapidity.

  38. From this filthy Cocytus flowed those streams of impurity which disgraced France during the reign of Louis XV.

  39. It was blood which was Marat's constant demand, not in drops from the breast of an individual, not in puny streams from the slaughter of families, but blood in the profusion of an ocean.

  40. Note how the little fighting trout of the rapid streams grow to the big, stupid, inert things of the New Zealand lakes, fish that come and ask to be caught, fish that a family can feed upon.

  41. Yet more beautiful than the streams are the pools occasionally found on the surface of a glacier, when they have clean floors unsoiled by a moraine.

  42. From this melting come little trickles of water which combine to form streams and then torrents.

  43. To the inexpert a glacier is a glacier all the world over, but the expert knows that the glaciers of different mountains have the same variations of character as the streams of different countries.

  44. For that is made white by the innumerable fissures that penetrate its surface, fissures which are caused by the heat of the sun, from which the beds of the streams are protected.

  45. Strange glory streams through life's wild rents, And through the open door of death We see the heaven that beckoneth To the beloved going hence.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "streams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.