braided stream

[ brā′dĭd ]

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A stream consisting of multiple small, shallow channels that divide and recombine numerous times forming a pattern resembling the strands of a braid. Braided streams form where the sediment load is so heavy that some of the sediments are deposited as shifting islands or bars between the channels.

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How to use braided stream in a sentence

But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.
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The marchers began to stream out of the park, where they walked West on 110th and then hung a right on 7th Avenue.
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Stream House of Cards and other Netflix originals right from the Hopper.
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Slow at first, then steadily, a stream of liquid drips off the incision.
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Take responsibility for an endless stream of people, even as our own suffer, and struggle to get policy relief from Washington.
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The very stream that went through it flowed sluggishly along, and as if it hadn't any particular object in life.
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Here it was allowed to grow, and as years went by it grew quite long, and was braided in two plaits down his back.
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This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.
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He felt that all her force, like a strong and ardent stream, was flowing into the new channel which he had cut for her.
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One heavily-laden boat was dragged into the stream, and a few officers and men clambered on board.
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