STREAM in a Sentence

Learn STREAM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
251 example sentences for STREAM, such as:
1. The stream bends to the west.
2. We waded across a shallow stream.
3. Don't swap horses when crossing a stream.
4. The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.
5. A steady stream of visitors came to the house.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STREAM
stream
 n.  a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
 n.  something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They walked on as if they were floating on a summer stream.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  But Sherman flanked them again, crossing the stream above them, and the weary gray files were forced to hurry across the yellow water and throw themselves again between the invaders and Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The heat of the fire made sweat stream down his forehead and cheeks but he did not wipe it off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  The Yankees had burned the bridge but she knew of a footlog bridge across a narrow point of the stream a hundred yards below.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Tears began to stream down her face so that she could not read and her heart swelled up until she felt she could not bear the joy of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  He colored with pleasure at the obvious sincerity of her words, hastily squirted a stream of tobacco juice from the opposite side of the buggy and leaped spryly to the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  Now Dilcey occupied one, and the other two were in constant use by a stream of miserable and ragged transients.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  While she watched him, Archie turned suddenly toward the fire and spat a stream of tobacco juice on it with such vehemence that India, Melanie and Pitty leaped as though a bomb had exploded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  His bare chest heaved up slowly and sank quickly and the red stream seeped from between Melanie's small frantic fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  But now, he turned against the stream in which he had drifted so short a while before, and began swimming arduously back against the current.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  A stream golloped through a concrete culvert beneath the road.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
13  But it bade fair to outstrip them; it flew on and on, as a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
14  It is well known that the elephant will often draw up water or dust in his trunk, and then elevating it, jet it forth in a stream.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
15  Soon we could see the broken, grassy clay cliffs which indicated the windings of the stream, and the glittering tops of the cottonwoods and ash trees that grew down in the ravine.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  She tucked up her skirt and waded across the stream.
2  We waded across a shallow stream.
3  The stream bends to the west.
4  Don't swap horses when crossing a stream.
5  Airport officials received a stream of verbal abuse from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.
6  Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.
7  It was so cold that the stream had frozen solid.
8  The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.
9  Anna stopped to examine a plant growing by the stream.
10  A mill-race is the fast stream of water driving the wheel of a water-mill.
11  The stream has frozen up; you can see the fish trapped in the ice.
12  The stream was dammed up to form ornamental lakes.
13  After heavy rain, the little stream becomes a raging torrent.
14  A steady stream of visitors came to the house.
15  The mass of ice choked up the mouth of the stream and ponded back the water.