Creek in a sentence as a noun

Increasing sedimentation in the creek reduces steelhead reproductive success, and is considered a take without a permit under the Endangered Species Act.

It only takes one bad precedent, one bad court ruling, to have impacts not only on this beach, not only on all California beaches, not only all bodies of water, but to any resource belonging to the people of California, whether it be a small creek in the eastern Sierra, a forest, or a desert.

Creek definitions

noun

a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"

See also: brook

noun

any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

See also: Creek