streambed
the channel in which a stream flows or formerly flowed.
Origin of streambed
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How to use streambed in a sentence
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 Fight to Save the Salmon | By Brian Bennett/Lapwai, Idaho with Photographs by Kiliii Yüyan | October 18, 2021 | TimeThe 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.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them. | by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica | September 18, 2020 | ProPublicaA web of surface expressions quickly developed, with continuous oil pools forming in the streambed.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them. | by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica | September 18, 2020 | ProPublicaThe regional water board is also monitoring Sandy Creek, the site of the streambed disaster.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them. | by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica | September 18, 2020 | ProPublicaChevron corralled the oil in a dry streambed, and within days the flow petered out.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them. | by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica | September 18, 2020 | ProPublica
Morning dawned gloomily; there was a light mist hanging over the streambed, and much of the sky was turgid with clouds.
Attrition | Jim WannamakerThen they topped the bank of a wide shallow dry streambed and saw the remnants of other safari below them.
The Leopard Woman | Stewart Edward White
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