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Example sentences for "little stream"

  • With great labor the baggage was transported across the crest to the head springs of a little stream leading to the main river.

  • Of course we did wish, and set eagerly forth past the end of the upper lake, across a bridge, past a great empty hotel which was falling to decay, and up a little stream to the fall.

  • Lights were gleaming all along the little stream; laughter and men's voices came to her across the level.

  • Miss Slocum from the cabin doorway--the door was a blanket--watched the canoe skim down the little stream, and sighed dolefully when it disappeared entirely.

  • Nkongon-Boumba was situated in a charming spot on the summit of a gentle hill, at the foot of which ran a little stream of clear water.

  • At last all the baggage was safely deposited on the margin of a little stream, where we were to build our camp.

  • As we came to a little stream, my exhaustion was such that every thing became dim before me; the trees of the forest seemed to be moving, and finally I fell almost unconscious to the ground.

  • Jack saw that there was good grass in the narrow bottoms of these water-courses, as Hugh had said, and in almost each one of several that they crossed a little stream flowed.

  • Presently Hugh drew in his horse and they turned and rode up over a little hill and stopped, looking across a narrow valley through which a little stream flowed.

  • Jim took the lead all day, and when we came to a little stream of water he would get down and taste the water while I held the horses to keep them from drinking.

  • I knew that we would camp near a little stream a few miles from where we had the fight, and also that it was a great feeding ground for Buffalo at this time of the year.

  • I had followed the trail some five or six miles when it led me to a little stream of water in a small grove of timber.

  • We followed a farm road, off toward the left, and presently came down into quite a decided hollow, through which ran a little stream of water.

  • We went by a narrow wood road, which entering the woods straight ahead of us, went obliquely to the left down a deep ravine, crossed a little stream, and up the hill, into the open field beyond.

  • At the end of one of the ravines with a little stream, right on the bank, remnants of a little glacier melting very slowly in the sun.

  • Not much--just a low bank of the big river, not over 4 feet high in front, and a higher rank grass-covered flat with a little stream on the left and a hill on the right.

  • The Yukon from near Marshall to below Kavlingnak] At the above distance from Anvik, on the right bank of the river and following a wooded hill, is a low flat backed by rising ground and cut across by a little stream.

  • There was a little stream of water running down one side of the passage and he lay down by it to drink.

  • He reached out to try and find it and his hand came in contact with a little stream of water.

  • It was where a little stream, like a silver thread, ran down across the mossy covering of the edge and went drip, dripping into the stone-walled basin far below.

  • A little stream comes in from the left, and below there is a fall, and still below another fall.

  • Down in the valley, across a little stream, we struck into a pleasant meadow road leading to the Hacienda of San Bartolo.

  • Crossing a little stream by a pretty bridge, we made an abrupt ascent, and soon saw the little town, Cuaquitepec, at the base of the opposite hill.

  • It was constructed to turn the course of a little stream which, in times of flood, has frequently done damage to the town.

  • We soon afterwards satisfied ourselves that immediately beyond these mountains was the main branch of the Arkansas river--most probably heading directly with the little stream below us, which gathered its waters in the snowy mountains near by.

  • The evening was very cold, a northwest wind driving a fine rain in our faces; and at nightfall we descended to a little stream, on which we encamped, about two miles from the Sweet Water.

  • On our road down, the next day, we saw herds of mountain sheep, and encamped on a little stream at the mouth of the defile, about a mile from the margin of the water, to which we hurried down immediately.

  • There is a breath of fragrance on the cool shady air beside our little stream, that seems familiar.

  • We landed on a sand beach at the mouth of a little stream, where a blazed tree marked the beginning of the Ampersand trail.

  • Page 118 One slash of the knife, and out trickled a little stream of yellow grains into the brown fist of the explorer.

  • One slash of the knife, and out trickled a little stream of yellow grains into the brown fist of the explorer.

  • Illustration: One slash of the knife, and out trickled a little stream of yellow grains into the brown fist of the explorer.

  • At a little village called Hampshire Crossing, our regiment was ordered to go to a little stream called St. John's Run, to relieve the 14th Georgia Regiment and the 3rd Arkansas.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little stream" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arrived here; great profusion; handed sword; little abruptly; little blue; little boiling; little children; little dark; little dove; little foot; little gasp; little groups; little hamlet; little help; little lake; little moment; little money; little older; little over; little purpose; little thing; little thought; little thyme; little wooden; little work; private gentleman