freshet
IPA: frˈɛʃʌt
noun
- A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
- (poetic) A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.
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Examples of "freshet" in Sentences
- The flood was caused by a freshet.
- Another freshet closed the bridge.
- The freshet caused a lot of deaths.
- A man predicts a freshet is going to come.
- I think the freshet caused the tree's death.
- This bridge was washed away by a freshet in 1869.
- 'freshet' is coming down from the up country to visit us.
- The river is known for ice jams during the spring freshet.
- A freshet in 1894 caused the new course to become permanent.
- Yet the freshet rose higher than that, and swept the bridge away.
- "By the 'freshet' bein 'over I judged he meant the tide bein' out.
- The crops were destroyed by a freshet and starvation was before them.
- Water flow is highest during the spring freshet and lowest in the fall.
- It was evident that, what in the language of the country is called a freshet was commencing.
- Much as one might want to avoid an annual freshet of legalism, it is very hard to argue that there is not.
- She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start.
- There was nothing the matter with the director's plans on this occasion; every detail of the "freshet" had been made ready for with exactness and with prodigious regard to detail.
- So when some professional friends of his called him up, one day, after a feast of reason and a regular "freshet" of soul which had lasted two or three hours, he read them these verses.
- The "freshet" above, an archaic term today, usually referred to a river overflow from a spring thaw accompanied by heavy rains, although, as in this case, it was sometimes used to refer to flood conditions at any time of year.
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