Use streams in a sentence
Sentences starting with streams
- Streams of dirty water flowed always from the pans and were carried off in broad wooden troughs to the ravine. [5]
Sentences ending with streams
- Manufactures had not yet invaded the region either to add to its wealth or to defile its streams. [4]
- Fish swarm about the shores and in all the streams. [4]
- Who loves alike the furrowed soil, The music-haunted streams! [6]
- The watering-pot had one of those perforated heads, through which the water runs in many small streams. [6]
- The saturated road no longer absorbed the water, which ran along the ruts in streams. [2]
- The warmth of my breath unlocks the streams. [5]
- In vain did journals and speakers of the opposition represent him as a lightminded trifler, who amused himself with frivolous story-telling and coarse jokes, while the blood of the people was flowing in streams. [7]
- Lassiter's horse covered her with froth that blew back in white streams. [13]
- They were both good walkers, and liked to climb the hills and explore the wild mountain streams. [4]
- Only when he gets into rhythm and rhyme he lets us see more of his personality, he ventures upon more audacious imagery, his flight is higher and swifter, his brief crystalline sentences have dissolved and pour in continuous streams. [6]
Sentences containing streams two or more times
- These streams met other streams, and they mingled with and crossed and recrossed each other in every conceivable direction, like skate tracks on a popular skating ground. [5]
More example sentences with the word streams in them
- The river-banks are woven with osiers to keep them from washing; and at intervals on the banks are piles of the long withes to be used in emergencies when the swollen streams threaten to break through. [4]
- Out in the woods of Beedon he had attuned his flute to the stir of leaves, the murmur of streams, the song of birds, the boom and burden of storm; and it was soft and deep as the throat of the bell-bird of Australian wilds. [11]
- Who devised the wonderful machinery which automatically drives its renewing and refreshing streams through the body, day and night, without assistance or advice from the man? [5]
- Before we reached Wolfville we came in sight of this basin and some of the estuaries and streams that run into it; that is, when the tide goes out; but they are only muddy ditches half the time. [4]
- There are persons, whom we all know, to whom human confidences, troubles and heart-aches flow as naturally its streams to a placid lake. [5]
- In the streams which run into it are the speckled trout, the shad, and the salmon; out of its depths are hooked the cod and the mackerel, and in its bays fattens the oyster. [4]
- Down from the west, through hills that crowded on either side to divert it from its course, ran the sparkling Deerfield, from among the springs and trout streams of the Hoosac, merrily going on to the great Connecticut. [4]
- But the streams were full of trout then, and the moose and the elk left their broad tracks on the sands of the river. [4]
- The mountain streams were all swollen and turbulent, and the steep declivities were furrowed in every direction by new channels. [6]
- At sundown, when we loosed our exhausted horses to graze on the wet grass by the streams, Tom would go off to look for a deer or turkey, and often not come back to us until long after darkness had fallen. [9]
- No sooner had we descended than the fording of streams began again. [4]
- Little rills of water got established along the sides under the blankets, cold, undeniable streams, that interfered with drowsiness. [4]
- It was all very well at first, until streams of water began to crawl along the face of the rock, and trickle down the back of my neck. [4]
- Presently the streams veered towards each other and joined. [11]
- Are there not trout in the streams, gum exuding from the spruce, sugar in the maples, honey in the hollow trees, fur on the sables, warmth in hickory logs? [4]
- My ride home to the town after noon was not altogether a pleasant one, by reason that icy rain poured from heaven in streams, mingled with snow. [10]
- The water streams through faucets in the face of a wall of ancient masonry which stands removed from the houses of the village. [5]
- Unless he made this, he must run south and skirt the Ecriviere Rock and bank, where the streams setting over the sandy ridges make a confusing perilous sea to mariners in bad weather. [11]
- Every now and then masses of the dark crust broke away and floated slowly down these streams like rafts down a river. [5]
- Yes, there were the Walnut Hills, high bluffs separated from the Mississippi by tangled streams and bayous, and on their crests the Parrotts scowled. [9]
- The parting of the streams on the Alps is poetically elaborated in a passage attributed to "M. Loisne," printed in the "Boston Evening Transcript" for October 23, 1859. [6]
- After many years the streams began to move again, westward, ever westward. [9]
- Ambition, hope, youth, the Foreign Office, the chancelleries of Europe, the perils of impending war, were all forgotten, or sunk into the dusky streams of subconsciousness. [11]
- She was in the first subservience to that power which feeds the streams of human history. [11]
- The road in the afternoon was not unpicturesque, owing to the streams and the ever noble forests, but the prospect was always very limited. [4]
- The conductor said that one of those streams which we were looking at, was just starting on a journey westward to the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean, through hundreds and even thousands of miles of desert solitudes. [5]
- They had learnt that life was as nothing to either of them without the other, and their hearts meseemed were henceforth as closely knit as two streams which flow together to make one river, and whose waters no power on earth can ever sunder. [10]
- The storm-bird has swallowed up all the stars as if they were flies, and the poor old mountain is so grieved at it, that streams of tears are everywhere flowing over his stony cheeks. [10]
- Its groves, its streams, its houses, are haunted by undying memories, and its hillsides and hollows are made holy by the dust that is covered by their turf. [6]
- Guards patrol the streams to prevent poaching it. [5]
- There must be streams into the reservoir. [4]
- Do two living streams hesitate when they come together? [4]
- Why, the water streams from them! [2]
- There are in some localities natural springs which give out slender streams of oxygen. [6]
- On the other side crags and trees and snowy houses were reflected in the lake with a wonderful distinctness, and streams of light from many a distant window shot far abroad over the still waters. [5]
- The outer door shut, and Stafford turned again to the little room where so much had happened which must change so many lives, bring so many tears, divert so many streams of life. [11]
- The two men saw their danger, and pushed swiftly down the mountainside and towards us, but more swiftly still these narrow snake-like streams came on. [11]
- The joy of sailing is born into some men, and those who are marked for the sea go down thither like the very streams, to be salted. [9]
- The larger the river the more streams flow into it. [6]
- When the white plume on his top floats inland, that is one sort of weather; when it streams out to sea, that is another. [4]
- The sun shone pleasantly on the bright water, which was sometimes shaded by trees, and sometimes open to a wide extent of country, intersected by running streams, and rich with wooded hills, cultivated land, and sheltered farms. [12]
- The City Hall Park, with its moving streams of people, etched itself in her memory. [9]
- At Worth's, well on in the afternoon, we emerged into a wide, open farming intervale, a pleasant place of meadows and streams and decent dwellings. [4]
- No greater proof of this can be needed than the effort to give princely entertainments in un-princely houses, where opposing streams of guests fight for progress in scant passages and on narrow stairways, and pack themselves in stifling rooms. [4]
- The discolored state of the streams was accounted for as soon as we saw this cultivated land. [4]
- From the wounds of the crown of thorns; from the pierced side; from the mutilated hands and feet; from the scourged body--from every hand-breadth of his person streams of blood were flowing! [5]
- This old city of St. Louis, which was founded by Laclede in 1765, likewise became the principal meeting-place of two great streams of emigration which had been separated, more or less, since Cromwell's day. [9]
- A long staff of iron-wood was in her hands, with which she jumped the dykes and streams and rocky fissures; in her breast were yellow roses, and there was a tuft of pretty feathers in her hair. [11]
- Behind this screen of forest are there hills, great streams, with broad valleys, ranges of mountains perhaps, vast plains, lakes, other wildernesses of illimitable extent? [4]
- One man will note all the landmarks, keep the points of compass in his head, observe how the streams run, in short, carry a map in his brain of any region that he has marched or galloped through. [6]
- Emerson sees all nature in the same pearly mist that wraps the willows and the streams of Corot. [6]
- Herself was by nature a creature of impulse, of the woods and streams and open life. [11]
- We reached the meeting-point first, but as we looked back we saw with horror that two streams of fire were flowing down the mountain side. [11]
- In a large marble-paved recess between the two rooms was a tank of clear, cool water, which was kept running over all the time by the streams that were pouring into it from half a dozen pipes. [5]
- The speckled trout lives in all the streams, and can be caught whenever he will bite. [4]
- Our love Must kindle in the ray that streams from heaven, A faint reflection of the light divine; The sun must warm the earth before the rose Can show her inmost heart-leaves to the sun. [6]
- For the Isar is trained to flow through it in two rapid streams, under bridges and over rapids, and by willow-hung banks. [4]
- The road, which is one of the best in the country, is a wonderful piece of engineering, spanning streams, cut in rock, rounding precipices, following the wild valley of the Dala by many a winding and zigzag. [4]
- Do not dabble in the muddy sewer of politics, nor linger by the enchanted streams of literature, nor dig in far-off fields for the hidden waters of alien sciences. [3]
- Both will flow in streams, and, even if we were certain of victory--which we are not--what will the gain be? [10]
- It is probable, however, that it would not be greater than is common to streams of the same length. [7]
- The union of herself and Heinz seemed imaged by two streams flowing from the same great inexhaustible, pure, and beneficent fountain, which, after having run through separate channels, meet to traverse as a single river the blooming meadows and keep them fresh and green. [10]
- From its dizzy heights superb views of the forests, streams, bluffs, hills and dales below and beyond for miles are brought within its focus. [5]
- When he finds he is approaching one of those streams, his dread is so lively that he is disposed to fly the track and avoid the implacable foe. [5]
- The political economists have made England the world's great workshop, on the theory that wealth is the greatest good in life, and that with the golden streams flowing into England from a tributary world, wages would rise, food be cheap, employment constant. [4]
- Their youth, perchance, had been spent amongst the crooked streets of some French village, streets lined by red-tiled houses and crossing limpid streams by quaint bridges. [9]
- We began to get into country, now, threaded here and there with little streams. [5]
- This is a general and accurate description of all the roads in this region, which wind along and in the streams, through narrow valleys, shut in by low and steep hills. [4]
- This whole region, full of swift streams, is without a bridge, and, as a consequence, getting over rivers and brooks and the dangers of ferries occupy a prominent place in the thoughts of the inhabitants. [4]
- The country is full of springs and streams, and between Abingdon and Egger's is only one (small) bridge. [4]
- Most of them followed their calling in the villages or towns that lie among the hills or along the inland streams. [3]
- A ball of fire had fallen with a terrific noise on the cupola, mingling with flames that seemed to rise like streams of fire from the earth. [10]
- There are very few stone arches over the streams in New England country towns, and I always delighted in this one. [6]
- The rain beat fast and furiously without, and ran down in plashing streams from the thatched roof. [12]
- And what sport doth yield more pleasing content, and less hurt or charge than angling with a hooke, and crossing the sweet ayre from Isle to Isle, over the silent streams of a calme Sea? [4]
- Not a sound disturbed the deep tranquillity of the night, except the distant roar of streams which rush from the high plateau of the St. Theodule glacier, and fall headlong over precipitous rocks till they lose themselves in the mazes of the Gorner glacier. [5]
- In the rural districts of any of the Islands, the traveler hourly comes upon parties of dusky maidens bathing in the streams or in the sea without any clothing on and exhibiting no very intemperate zeal in the matter of hiding their nakedness. [5]
- They followed the courses of these streams, and gutted them, sending the gravel up in buckets to the upper world, and washing out of it its enormous deposits of gold. [5]
- When this great country of ours began to develop, the streams moved westward; one over what became the plain states of Ohio and Indiana and Illinois, and the other across the Blue Ridge Mountains into Kentucky and Tennessee. [9]
- Mountains are painfully climbed, streams forded, lonesome lakes paddled over, long and muddy "carries" traversed. [4]
- The streams run clear then, as they do not in April; the sky is high and transparent; the world seems so large and fresh and inviting. [4]
- There are the calm streams that flow eagerly from the youthful sources, join a kindred flood, and go placidly to the sea, only broadening and deepening and getting very muddy at times, but without a rapid or a fall. [4]
- A stranger nature bloomed before him--giant streams promised him success--gardens of hidden treasures opened to his view. [5]
- A strange nature bloomed before him--giant streams promised him success--gardens of hidden treasures opened to his view. [5]
- Rameses caused the blood and sweat of his subjects to flow in streams for the honor of his own great name; under my rule their blood flows rarely, and the sweat of their brow only in works of usefulness. [10]
- All the principal avenues are lined with chairs, and there people sit to watch the streams of carriages. [4]
- The water is as cold as ice and as clear as cut glass; few mountain streams in the world, probably, are so absolutely without color. [4]
- The streams which are called the sources of the Jordan flow through it to Lake Huleh, a shallow pond three miles in diameter, and from the southern extremity of the Lake the concentrated Jordan flows out. [5]
- That the poorest and most thinly populated countries would be greatly benefited by the opening of good roads, and in the clearing of navigable streams within their limits, is what no person will deny. [7]
- They are odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thousand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thought and feeling which have flowed down into your heart and brain out of the hearts and brains of centuries of ancestors. [5]
- All the roughness and coarseness of the life was refined in her memory by the exquisite atmosphere of the North, the good sweet earth, the strong bracing wind, the camaraderie of trees and streams and grass and animals. [11]
- Name the length and breadth of the streams of lava which issued from the Skaptar Jokul in the eruption of 1783. [5]
- In crossing this amphitheater he went by the mouths of five canyons, fording little streams that flowed into the larger one. [13]
- Water is carried along the banks from the river, and distributed by numerous sluiceways below; and above, the little mountain streams are brought where they are needed by artificial channels. [4]
- Wilson is the agent of the New York owner of a tract of some thirteen thousand acres of forest, including the greater portion of Mount Mitchell, a wilderness well stocked with bears and deer, and full of streams abounding in trout. [4]
- When night came, across the hills and far away in the deep blue, white shaking streams of light poured upward, telling the besieged forces over there at Lordkop that rescue would come, that it was moving on to the mountain. [11]
- All the streams about this basin are famous for their salmon and shad, and the season for these fish was not yet passed. [4]
- The mourners go about the streets with their umbrellas running streams from the end of every whalebone. [5]
- We looked over a well-grassed meadow, seamed here and there by beds of streams left bare by the receding tide, to a gentle swell in the ground upon which is a not heavy forest growth. [4]
- I paused for a moment, aimlessly regarding the streams of humanity hurrying in and out, streaking the white marble floor with the wet filth of the streets. [9]
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