STREAM in a Sentence

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For STREAM, below is one of 251 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of STREAM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stream
 n.  a small, narrow river
 v.  flow in a continuous current
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  Part of the new plant is now in operation and remainder will be on stream later this month.
17  There has been a steady stream of phone calls from worried customers about the safety of the product.
18  We crossed a small iron bridge over a meandering stream.
19  A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a mainstream river, and which does not flow directly into a sea.
20  The entire valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zigzag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, and the somber woodland, the clear and sunny lea.
21  A limpid stream ran through his property.
22  I saw her rinse hands at the stream.
23  The main weapon of the vendor is his tongue: his stream of words builds castles in the air, blows up glistening bubbles and silences all doubt.
24  Listening to his continuous stream of empty chatter really tested my patience.
25  But sometimes there's a photograph that really matters, one that I want to elevate above the ephemeral stream that I'll forget about by the end of the day.
26  The site's constant stream of experiences, opinions and sentiments has spawned a vast commercial ecosystem, serving up putative insights to product developers, Hollywood studios, major retailers and other investors.
27  Beavers are famous for their skill in building dams across streams.
28  Taishan let the soil, so it can become bigger and bigger; river is not the small streams, so it can be so deep.
29  A stellar wind streams outward from the star.
30  Blood streams out of his mouth.