How to use creek in a sentence

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• The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".From the entry run
• We'll be up the creek if we lose those files, so we should back them up regularly.From the entry up the creek
• This creek is too small to be paddleable in any practical sense; portage is the sensible option.From the entry paddleable
• The creek marks the boundary between the two farms.From the entry mark
• There was a blackberry patch down by the creek, and his grandparents called the pasture down there the cow patch.From the entry patch
• Lord willing and the creek don't rise, we'll have that new barn finished in time for the harvest.From the entry Lord willing and the creek don't rise
• I might can go swimming in the creek tomorrow.From the entry might can
• The whole herd is out to pasture right now — the cows, calves, and heifers are out back, and the bulls are down by the creek.From the entry cow
• Rewilding can be as complex as depaving a creek or as simple as planting a few seeds.2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry depave
• After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry slow
• Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek.2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry nosefirst
• One Illinois delegate said, "I saw Lodge on television today, and he'll run like a dry creek."2009, W. J. Rorabaugh, The Real Making of the President. From the entry run like a dry creek
• Somehow, we'd become high-centred on a big boulder at the creek crossing.2008, Bruce T. Batchelor, Nine Dog Winter, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry high-centred
• I was desperately searching for the emergency cord when I landed spread-eagle in the frozen creek bed.2005, Dan Rodgers, I Thought You Brought the Can Opener. From the entry foof
• Near the coast, tidal creeks and high marshland formed a landscape with irregular parcellings.2003, Dennis Howard Green, Frank Siegmund, The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century, page 38. From the entry parcelling
• I'd admire seeing a lot of you.” They made camp down at the creek.2002, Jack Jones, Iron Spur, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry admire
• Underwater, in a creek where an old swinging bridge once crossed.2001 March 23, GiLL<}}}><, “Two of a kind”, in alt.treasure.hunting (Usenet), retrieved 02 Jan 2023. From the entry V nickel
• The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008…. From the entry jew
• Today she and husband Murray “bushbash” regularly, going camping in remote gorges and creeks.1990, Asiaweek, volume 16, page 128. From the entry bushbash
• A fifth negative test pit was excavated near the largest creek at Middle Point.1988 February, Rachel Joan Dale, J. David McMahan, “Research Methodology and Results”, in Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed North…. From the entry deadfall
• Around lunchtime we crossed a creek with river-red-gums growing in its bed.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 128. From the entry river red gum
• The League knew little about lobbving and its cash flow ran like a dry creek.1985, Jay Richter, Where credit was due: the creation of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank, page 24. From the entry run like a dry creek
• The proirrigation candidates lost south of the creek and won on the north side of the creek.1955, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, volume 2, page 487. From the entry proirrigation
• A little creek ran through the land, and the prairie rolled a little there, too.1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 23. From the entry blackjack
• The creeks of Hsin-ho K’ou and Tiao-kuan K’ou communicate with the N. of Lake Tung-t’ing.[1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 400. From the entry Dongting
• And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks.1911, Dallas Lore Sharp, Roof and Meadow. From the entry pondy
• The glacial drip was already in evidence, and every creek in roaring spate.1902 October, Jack London, chapter XXIII, in A Daughter of the Snows, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC…. From the entry spate
• Adroitly the ewe led the way to the creek, and the lamb followed.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry adroitly
• Similar to how some people say crick instead of creek.2019 February 25, Paul Turner, quoting Patty West, “Paul Turner: Hello, modern-day Spokane children. I scoff at your puny snow forts.”, in…. From the entry Warshington
• Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1. From the entry snakehead
• It was located in the Oont Bazaar (Camel Market) area and was separated from Dubai proper by a creek.2014, S. Hussain Zaidi, “Despair in Dubai”, in My Name is Abu Salem, Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Penguin Books India, →ISBN. From the entry oont
• There are pullouts along the main road (which crosses two creek fords) that are just the thing for picnics.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
• The creek connects the Xi River to factories along the Huai River, but it’s too shallow for large boats to navigate.2013, Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew, The Dark Road, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152. From the entry Huai River
• The banks on either side of the creek were high enough to high center the long trailer house.2010, Stephen L. Wood, The Traveller: Notes from an Imperfect Journey Around the World., →ISBN, page 35. From the entry high center
• When found, the vehicle was stuck, high-centred as an apparent attempt had been made to drive it through a creek bed.2010, T. M. Scotty Gardiner, In the Mind of a Mountie, →ISBN, page 422. From the entry high-centred
• Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88. From the entry schoolie
• He would have known the Merri well, given the affinity between boys and creeks, and he probably fished and yabbied there.2005, F. Mathews, editor, Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture, page 156. From the entry yabby
• And I'd admire seeing this creek become a sort of stopping place for geese of one sort and another.1976, Field & Stream, page 10. From the entry admire
• Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows.1932, Isabel T. Kelly, “Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute”, in University of California Publications in California Archaeology an…. From the entry jack

Meaning of creek

1. noun A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
2. noun The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
3. noun A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

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Questions about creek in a sentence

How do you use creek in a sentence?

Creek is used as a noun. For example: “The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".”

What is a short sentence with creek?

“Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows.”

What does creek mean?

Creek means a small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.