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creeks

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for creeks.

Editorial note

We are also having a problem with creeks drying up from growers drawing water.

Examples12
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Any turn or winding.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of creeks gathered in one view.

noun

Any turn or winding.

noun

One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.

noun

The Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for creeks.

noun

Any turn or winding.

noun

One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.

noun

The Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

We are also having a problem with creeks drying up from growers drawing water.

2

Until the age of 10, I roamed in about a square mile of lakes, woods, creeks and fields.

3

I wouldn't trade those years of exploring woods, swimming in creeks and quarries and observing wildlife for anything.

4

In the mid-2000s, for instance, the Forest Service went through the permits of hundreds of cabins and reexamined their use of water from creeks.

5

I love hampton creeks Just Mayo as it has completely replaced real mayo for me.

6

Beavers build those dams with the intent that it will protect them from predators; they intend to dam up creeks in order to submerge the eventual entrance to their lodge.

7

Iowa's road map was drawn from afar, before any surveyors could look at it, so there are a lot of bridges keeping the road grid continuous over rivers, creeks and dry streambeds.

8

When I was about 10 we moved to a rural area, and my local free-range zone exploded to a massive wooded zone full of animals, and creeks and rivers.

9

And while there were some environmental arguments in favor (the dust from vehicles washed into local creeks and affected aquatic life), it hugely changed the nature of the destination at the end of the road.

10

Even if swimming pools would be banned, there are private pools, there are lakes and rivers and creeks and canals and oceans and shores, there are ships that sink and idiots that push you down a bridge.

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Bhutan[3]) also has a lot of lakes where glacial sediments have dammed creeks very high up in the mountains, and a huge concern is the failure of the dams during even moderate seismicity; this could cause huge, scouring floods to rip through villages.

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Obviously you want few obstacles to maximize the useful land area, but fields often had ponds, creeks, patches of trees that broke things up, not to mention unknown obstacles like fallen trees or fences, wild animals, etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use creeks in a sentence?

We are also having a problem with creeks drying up from growers drawing water.

What does creeks mean?

Any turn or winding.

What part of speech is creeks?

creeks is commonly used as noun.