What is "streambed"

Usage examples of "streambed".

Then we would spend a long time searching among the bushes and rocks of the streambed, before picking up the trail again.

I took off with Mae, running along the edge of the ridge until it sloped down toward the streambed floor.

In a few minutes I had crossed the streambed to the other bank, and was moving back toward his light on the hill.

She was standing up in the streambed now, talking on her radio to the helicopter.

Cerise leaned back in her seat as the hordes of pedestrians flowed around the car like water around the rocks in a streambed, not wanting to pay attention to them, men and women in cheap-corporate suits, the middling sort who kept the companies running and the money flowing.

He crossed the pathetic streambed, running across the other side, heading roughly downhill, toward the far-distant ocean.

He studied the steeply sloping streambed, dropping from that narrow gap to the small backwater at his feet.

Joppa our road turned inland, following a streambed, bearing only a trickle of water at this time of year, into the hills.

The surface of the desert was brightly illuminated but it still took them three passes before Vickers spotted the dry streambed and the small bridge.

Antennae dipped and weaved balletically as Desvendapur gazed down the streambed, then turned back to the still-watchful human.

Antennae dipped and weaved balletically as Desvendapur gazed down the streambed, then turned back to the still watchful human.

Wind erosion and the marvelous erratics created by volcanic bombardment from Olympus Mons gave the expedition members a lot of features to discuss: beach terracing from long-lost lakes, meandering streambeds, lava bombs shaped like giant teardrops, or colored in a way that implied certain gases in copious quantities in the Hesperian atmosphere.

Wind erosion and the marvellous erratics created by volcanic bombardment from Olympus Mons gave the expedition members a lot of features to discuss: beach terracing from long­lost lakes, meandering streambeds, lava bombs shaped like giant teardrops, or coloured in a way that implied certain gases in copious quantities in the Hesperian atmosphere .

The local gold had not been discovered for several reasons, mainly relating to the dreadful Siberian climate, which had, first, prevented a detailed exploratory survey, and, second, covered the local streams with ice so much of the time that the gold dust in the streambeds had never been noticed.

The river was dry this time of year, but giant granite boulders testified to the smoothing effects of a torrent that scoured the streambed during some winters.