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Recent Examples of arroyo
Officials said Sturluson, 23 – who was experiencing homelessness – was shot May 1 after asking the teen and Curtis to stop firing into a arroyo, or dry creek, that was close by.
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025
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
The bodies of 11 women aged between 15 and 32 were found in an arroyo outside Albuquerque in 2009, after a local walking her dog found a human bone and alerted authorities.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arroyo
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With modern development along the creek’s 35-mile watershed that starts in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains and drains to Aliso Beach, the area has become swamped by urban runoff.—
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If no candidate wins a majority, the top two will advance to an April 7 runoff.—
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Her laughter was said to sound like a babbling brook.—
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Michelle turned back, but the other two children went walking along a trail near what is now I-395 and came across a brook.—
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Dee Anderson, a spokesperson for the Tarrant County police, said at the time that maintenance workers had been near the creek hours earlier, but Amber’s body was not found.—
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In the ‘Groundhog Day’-esque nightmare that never ends, the ‘urgent’ and ‘engaged’ Boston Red Sox are up a creek without a paddle, vessel, and excuse, having lost out on a top – and very sign-able – free-agent target once again.—
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Iris, jasmine, and galbanum give it its floral-meets-fresh-and-powdery finish.—
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Their offense shortens the game, keeping the team’s defense fresh.—
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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.—
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The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks.—
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The expanse of a cookie, its crumbly craters and molten rivulets, is a playground for the pastry chef.—
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Turning the rivulet flowing down a melting glacier into a bright-pink stream was the least scientific test carried out this day.—
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His verses evoke sacred rivers, fertile grounds and gardens bright with sinuous rills—a lyrical world beyond the inauspicious reality of its start-point.—
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Earthbound telescopes saw rills or gullies that later proved to be collapsed lava tubes.—
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The terrain is ideal upland bird habitat, with abundant wheat and soybean fields and plenty of coulees with cover that ringnecks relish.—
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.—
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“Arroyo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arroyo. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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