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How to use stream in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Stream means a small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks. Example: “He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.”

Examples of stream by meaning

nounA small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

  • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59

nounA thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

  • He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.

nounCurrent, the force of moving water.

  • to swim against the stream

nounAny steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

  • Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
  • A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent.2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian

nounA particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

  • Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.

nounA source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

  • In the context of computer science, lexical analysis can be defined as the conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens.

nounAn instance of streaming digital data.

  • If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream.2023 May 3, Courtney Young, “13 Shows to Binge When ‘Succession’ Ends”, in Cosmopolitan

nounA division of a school year by perceived ability.

  • All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.

More sentences with stream

  • The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.From the entry cast
  • After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.From the entry fresh
  • Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals.From the entry collateral
  • We made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn’t manage.From the entry attempt
  • He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.From the entry thrust
  • Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.From the entry flow
  • The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.From the entry divide
  • The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.From the entry tributary
  • I clipped the moment they beat the world record live on stream.From the entry clip
  • A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.From the entry angler
  • One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.From the entry scarcely
  • The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.From the entry effluent
  • His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.From the entry garner
  • He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.From the entry grubby
  • We used barbless fishhooks in the catch-and-release stream, in order to minimize harm to the fish.From the entry barbless
  • The request stream is parasequential, so we have some latency delay.From the entry parasequential
  • This paper cup is pulpable: it can be recycled in the normal paper-recycling stream.From the entry pulpable
  • Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.From the entry stream snipe
  • The train pulled up and disgorged a stream of briefcased commuters.From the entry briefcased
  • The borrower's preference for a nonstructurable loan allowed for greater flexibility in repayment, accommodating irregular income streams.From the entry nonstructurable
  • Big tears streamed from Lisa's eyes, rolling down her cheeks.From the entry tear
  • The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.From the entry bound
  • We need to build an income stream over time.From the entry build
  • The stream runs by our back door.From the entry by
  • Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.From the entry anchor
  • A road, a tree, or a stream forks.From the entry fork
  • They walked across the stream on a fallen log.From the entry log
  • A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.From the entry atomic
  • As a kid, he used to catch sunnies with a cane pole and garden worms in the stream behind the house.From the entry sunnies
  • We strolled along beside a lazy stream.From the entry lazy
  • He waded out, the stream eddying around his legs.From the entry eddy

Meaning of stream

  1. noun A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
  2. noun All moving waters.
  3. noun A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

Full definition of stream

Questions about stream in a sentence

How do you use stream in a sentence?
Stream is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.”
What is a short sentence with stream?
“to swim against the stream”
What does stream mean?
Stream means a small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stream (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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