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Meanings of streambed in English

Catalan
tàlveg
Spanish
fondo del lecho

A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream.

tàlveg
Usage of streambed in English
1
This leaves me unmoved; I am like a dry streambed being dredged.
Conquest of the Useless
2
She steps down into the dry streambed and notices an odd stone.
Blind willow, sleeping woman
3
They found me stretched out in a streambed, unconscious in full daylight.
Soon I will be invincible
4
It took the apparent path of least resistance and headed down the streambed.
The Land of Painted Caves
5
Celinor rode beside her as their horses picked their way through a streambed.
Wizardborn
6
This short, steep column drips out of the streambed above it.
Climbing Magazine
7
Fire-tailed weaver birds rose up from a streambed in raucous clouds.
Wizardborn
8
The hunters went to check the kills; nine bleeding bison littered the streambed.
The Land of Painted Caves
9
Max stepped carefully over the rocks down into the wet streambed.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
10
The boulders in the streambed were constantly on the move.
Water, stone, heart
11
He looked down at the streambed, now forty feet below.
Jurassic Park
12
Drive east thirty kilometers until you hit an old streambed.
Envoy
13
He stumbled into a streambed, slipped on round wet stones.
Wizardborn
14
The streambed wasn't sand anymore; it was fine soil.
The evolutionary void
15
We came to a dried-up streambed and followed it, the stones crunching under our boots.
Boy’s Life
16
The streambed widened, opening out into a flat basin.
The Lost World
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Streambed through the time
Streambed across language varieties
United States of America
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