Example Sentences

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Water trickling into a pool creates a desirable streamlike sound.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

The valley is 3� miles wide and has branching, streamlike tributaries that seem more likely to have been formed by water than by lava.

From Time Magazine Archive

This theory went out of fashion when improved sounding methods showed that some of the streamlike channels lead down to the ocean floor itself three miles below the surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

No sound was heard but the splashing of the strange waves all around them, and the streamlike gurgle of the current, which threaded its way smoothly through the tossing, tumultuous sea.

From A Voyage to Arcturus by Lindsay, David