They marched from Taos, ten miles north, to a stream called the Arroya Hondo.
This river of Los Angeles betrays the streak of original desertness in the country by flowing bottom-side up, for which it receives the name of arroya, and even arroya seca as against the rio of the full-flowing Sacramento and San Juan.
Islay had shed its crimson drupes; the cactus fires had died down to the dull purples of the fruiting prickly pear; the sycamores by the dwindling waters of the arroya had scarcely a palsied leaf to wag.
While scrambling up an arroya and pointing for the table-lands beyond, the Tomcat ran into Mr. Cook, picking his way towards the outfit's evening camp.
He seems always busy and is extremely polite, but I gave him the adobe house across the arroya after Papa Phil--went.
She peered out through the green mesquite as Captain Pike emerged from the west arroya on a gray burro, herding two other pack animals ahead of him into the south trail.
Kit thinking it all over as he tramped along thearroya bed, "it either belongs to you, or it doesn't.
In a dawn all silver and gold and rose after the storm, there was only a trace at the edge of the sand where two horses had carried riders to the treacherous smiling arroya over which a coyote would not cross.
The ancient song of the sad bride whose lover proved false in the "low, low lands of Holland" trailed lugubriously along the arroya in a totally irrelevant way, for the singer was not at all sad.
He told me he had promised Perez to lose me in the Arroya Maldioso if in no other way, and he had to manage that I never be seen again.
In passing the Arroya the caravan and baggage trains followed close upon the rear of the army.
Old "One-Armed-Juan" Esquejeda told of having goats taken from his place almost in the center of town and about the same time Willie Fletcher and some of his pals went swimming in a pool formed by a dam in Arroya Rico.
In one season Juan filled a large beer bottle with gold from Arroya Rico.
The Arroya Bonita is one of the prettiest streams in the Panhandle country, with a good flow of water and lots of timber.
We crossed the river and followed the old Fort Bascom trail to Antelope Creek, where we crossed over to the Arroya Bonita, on which the LX Ranch afterwards established headquarters.
She was no more than fairly stretched away on a dead run from the new peril when she shot into an arroya or depression in the prairie.
His pursuers, in their haste to head him off, had dashed across the arroya at a point only a short distance above where he entered and their leader emerged from it.
He seemed to be chasing you, for you came out of the arroya ahead of him.
In the short distance passed, the arroya made a sweeping curve, and he had repeatedly changed his own course since leaving the Whitney ranch.
The arroya into which Queenie plunged had gently sloping sides, and was perhaps fifty feet wide.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arroya" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
