stream bed
creek bed AmE

He shot both women before either had cleared the stream bed.

It can dive and run under water along the stream bed.

I ran into him just as he turned up the valley to follow the stream bed.

After four years of work, the stream bed was eventually regulated.

Like a stream bed in west Texas, neither myth will hold water through the summer.

Hal turned and looked up the steep stream bed behind him.

"I'm going to try to make it to the stream bed.

Remains of the bridge can still be observed at the stream bed.

A crest of water two and a half feet higher than before rolled down the stream bed.

It is able to run along stream beds, and stay underwater for one to two minutes.

Look, there's dead ground along this old stream bed.

When he looked up again, the far side of the stream bed was perceptibly closer.

You can often find these around dirt roads and stream beds.

This in turn depends upon the composition of the lake or stream bed.

Sean glanced up the slope and then down into the stream bed.

The stream bed was literally the only place they could have safely landed.

They rode out of the walls in a close bunch, down into the stream bed and across it.

Surface water was forced to carve out new stream beds.

In these locations, a stream bed may be a raised feature, instead of a valley.

Hugh heard a sound of water, saw a brown wave rushing down the stream bed.

The old Recorder peered down at the drying stream bed.

Hal scrambled to his feet, and launched himself up the stream bed.

When he looked beyond them to the next giant step in the stream bed, Hal knew why they had been abandoned here.

But the next stream bed was wide and the going was worse.

No water flowed here, nor had any snow accumulated in the stream bed.

Up and down the creek bed was more of the same.

"I want to show you something over by the creek bed."

There is another above the creek bed for large groups, up to 50 people.

They can occur in the ground beyond the creek bed.

"Now they know we can hit out to the creek bed.

They followed the general slope of the land back down to the creek bed.

And the dry creek bed will take care of the rest!"

Evidently he had turned the Indians, or they would already have been in the creek bed.

The water was coming through a thicket that once sat high above the creek bed.

After the night's excesses, my voice was a dry creek bed.

"It gave them the idea to bring the bus along the creek bed.

The boy led him down to a small ravine, which at first looked like a dry creek bed.

He said all we'll really see from a distance is a dry creek bed."

Her body was dumped in a nearby creek bed and located six days later.

Then they threw her body into a creek bed.

Mark followed close behind as they crossed a dry creek bed and headed for home.

He began to search the creek bed for a length of brush- wood.

From that point forward, the platoon marched along the creek bed and into deep water.

They slipped down the bank to the creek bed.

He did the same thing at a second fork, and again at a creek bed.

It might manage a drive up a creek bed.

The remaining Texans would be positioned within the creek bed where they had good cover.

The main pipe from the creek bed runs first south and then turns at a right angle to the west.

The five party members came to the site early in the afternoon, bringing the working trailer down a dry creek bed.

Many of the arrows went over the creek bed entirely and into the prairie on the other side.