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streambed
[ streem-bed ]
Word History and Origins
Origin of streambed1
Example Sentences
Only 20% of the salmon that swim above the dams are wild—fish that reproduce in cool mountain streambeds and not in the concrete tanks of a hatchery—and there is growing concern among fish biologists that they will be gone in a decade.
The department did not respond to questions about whether it has ever cited or fined companies that have spilled oil and altered the streambed in Sandy Creek.
A web of surface expressions quickly developed, with continuous oil pools forming in the streambed.
The regional water board is also monitoring Sandy Creek, the site of the streambed disaster.
Chevron corralled the oil in a dry streambed, and within days the flow petered out.
Morning dawned gloomily; there was a light mist hanging over the streambed, and much of the sky was turgid with clouds.
Then they topped the bank of a wide shallow dry streambed and saw the remnants of other safari below them.
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