Dry creek or stream bed which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows after sufficient rain.
1 Scrubby pines straggled up the slopes from arroyos that cleft the hills.
2 As we advanced through the mud, the small arroyos were rapidly filling.
3 Beyond the flats was a country creased with draws and dry arroyos .
4 These were occasionally broken by smaller tributary arroyos of the same sort.
5 The party bore eastward, following a maze of washes, arroyos , and gorges.
6 That happened to be the night Wayland had camped in the Desert arroyos .
7 The sun touched to molten gold the heavy shadows of the mountain arroyos .
8 The arroyo was as thousands of other arroyos in that country.
9 There's gold dust in the arroyos , and there's mineral up in the mountains.
10 His men struggled through steep terrain, dense brush, ravines, and arroyos .
11 The trail led up and down through draws and arroyos .
12 Dry arroyos suddenly filled and became swift torrent, rolling big boulders down their courses.
13 As monotonous as watching Jim running back in the arroyos .
14 When the rain ended, the arroyos would empty as swiftly as they had filled.
15 Two wooded arroyos gashed the rim of the valley and ran down into the basin.
16 We had a string of bodies found in arroyos .
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