How to Use creek in a Sentence

creek

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  • The children waded in the creek.
  • The coast is dotted with tiny creeks.
  • The search continued the next day along the trails and the creek.
    — Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • See you in 2023, God willing, and the creek don’t rise.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • To the squawk in the bird sanctuary and the burbling creek by the old mill.
    — Melena Ryzik Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Overnight, the street in front of her home had become a creek.
    — Winston Choi-Schagrin Dave Sanders, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • And then something told me to get out of this truck and pop out of it and try to run to the creek.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Each of Britton’s home sites will back up to a green space and creek.
    — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • For decades, the nearby creek was a dumping ground for sewage.
    — Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The younger girl tried to run, but Presnell caught her and drowned her in a creek, the ruling says.
    — Kate Brumback, ajc, 1 June 2022
  • This year, the creek has continued to flow for 75 more days, Wilde said.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The creek looked shallow but in fact was seven feet deep.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The creek where her family likes to swim is filled with dead fish.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Hayes then fled on foot, heading west under 31 in the creek.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2022
  • About a half acre of field separated us from the next house along the creek.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
  • Two hours later, she was found stabbed and beaten to death in a creek bed.
    — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 July 2022
  • Toddlers can look for wildlife, listen to the wind and creek, smell plants and flowers, and touch the trees and leaves.
    — oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2022
  • There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • The course goes over gravel, dirt, steep hills, long climbs and creek crossings.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The lodge guests come from around the world to fish, partake of the idea of wilderness, drink beer cooled in a creek, and feast on salmon and pies.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Lindsy Doan found herself near the banks of the creek and started screaming for help.
    — Summer Lin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The 3-mile round-trip trail climbs through a shady creek bed in Big Cottonwood Canyon.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2022
  • There was a creek out back with footbridges that were falling down.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The Andreas Canyon Trail goes about half a mile up the canyon, crosses the creek, then returns to the canyon parking area.
    — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Fields irrigated by the creek and the Rio Grande bore a bounty of corn, beans, squash and chiles.
    — Tammy Webber, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The creek is also a prime place to watch spawning salmon in July and August.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • Schools and parks are nearby, and a creek runs through the leafy community.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • The creek of cheap examples listed in the classifieds ran dry at some point in the 2010s.
    — Ronan Glon, Car and Driver, 10 May 2022
  • Hikers and runners will no longer have to use a 2-foot-wide, 30-foot-long wooden plank to cross a creek along the trail.
    — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The cleanup of the creek is reportedly supposed to be finished by 2038.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2022

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