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UK
/kɹˈiːk/
]
[ US /ˈkɹik/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹik/ ]
NOUN
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a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
the creek dried up every summer
How To Use creek In A Sentence
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- Tumbling down slopes near Wawona at the south end of the park, Chilnualna Creek - at its fattest and fastest this time of year - creates a series of foaming cascades around giant boulders.
- The thick canebrake along Holy Ground Greek, however, rendered it impossible for Carson's men to cross it and attack the town from the creek's right bank.
- This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
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- We rode hardish (some people would have called it a hand-gallop) most of the way; up hill and down, across the rocky creeks, through thick timber. Robbery Under Arms
- The next crossing was the Birch Creek Valley, and it was sleeting.
- A container with fresh creek water made out of a sealed off and hollowed bamboo stick hung from his leather belt.
- The"sacred ecosystem," as executive director Hawk Rosales calls it, isthreaded by waters like Wolf Creek (right), focus of aproject to restore salmon habitat.