A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

Usage examples of brook.

Doctor Brooks to watch Cole closely, and the younger man to fix Magruder with an accusative glare.

At the end of the chief thoroughfare flowed a deep and rapid brook, an affluent of the Coango, in the dry bed of which the royal grave was to be formed.

Cermak Road into the affluent sprawl of Oak Brook and wound through the side streets until he saw the convenience store on his right.

Livingston told us Alanna Brooks was a bankable star who could be guaranteed to pull the fans.

Wicker and Brooks had already arrived at Le Bearn and had planted several miniaturized cameras and listening devices in the bar, restaurant, and bathroom.

An old gray house, surrounded by willows, in a blossomy brook valley, looked more promising, but did not seem quite the thing either.

Drifts of mist obscured it, and there were formless dark patches and pale blotches upon the night, and here and there a brook crawled across the blackness.

Threading the briery dell, and following the brook that prattled down the steep slope, I climbed the hill which directly overhangs the hamlet.

That would give analysts a fertile field to investigate, as fertile as the fields covered in the novels by New Zealand author Alan Brooker, who has joined the Amber Quill Press stable after some frustrating experiences with publishers in his own country and in the USA.

I went along with Gran on the Monday, not only to put Henry Brooker in charge but also to introduce your new son-in-law to the shop.

Then she went into the office where Henry Brooker was standing behind the desk.

Three months later Lizzie married Henry Brooker, and Peggy and Andrew moved into the big house.

But there he paused for a moment and looked back around the room, and only then did it really register that, as Brooker had said, he had been a fool: he should never have kept any receipts.

God, and Brooker had two Fusilier Companies following him, and Sharpe watched as a third Company set out for the Convent and he began to relax.

Four Captains, including Brooker and Cross, and two Lieutenants including Harry Price.