creek bed

collocation in English

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creek
noun[C]
uk
/kriːk/us
/kriːk/
mainly UK
a narrow area of water that flows into the land from the sea, a ...
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bed
noun
uk
/bed/us
/bed/
a large, rectangular piece of furniture, often with four legs, used for ...
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(Definition ofcreekandbedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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First they cleaned out the bottom of the creek, called thecreekbed.
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Because of the development around the creek the rain water washed into thecreekbed, which quickly rose.
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Turning upstream from here, it is possible to gradually get to thecreekbedand follow it further upstream to the falls.
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At the dam, the originalcreekbedwas at, making the dam approximately tall.
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By diverting the creek waters, the party was able to re-work a large section of the best part of thecreekbed.
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The construction consisted of the building of a new bridge and a redesign of the down streamcreekbed.
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It has significant areas of reserves either adjacent, or within 100 metres either side of its maincreekbed.
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The creek gets its name from the slate that makes up thecreekbed.
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Thecreekbedcontains gravel and boulders of various sizes, typical of a glacial moraine.
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The suits were roughly made on acreekbedusing a makeshift forge and a stringy-bark log as a muffled anvil.
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All roads were unsealed tracks, while the main street was a dry rockycreekbed(unless there was a rare thunderstorm).
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It is 2375 ft long and 240 ft tall when measured from thecreekbed(300 ft tall from the bedrock).
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After about the route drops down onto thecreekbedand follows it through a gorge.
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The bridge is said to still be in place, having been buried when thecreekbedwas filled in.
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The burros had wandered down the creek and when the miners found their pack animals, they discovered gold in thecreekbedas well.
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They can occur in the ground beyond thecreekbed.
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Since the lobby is four floors above thecreekbed, the lobby windows look out into the trees of the surrounding forest.
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The sediments deposited during this period lithified into the limestone rock underneath the park's soil and was exposed by erosion around thecreekbed.
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This flatcreekbedcontained, until roads and other construction obliterated them, the intermittent stream of the creek itself and two ponds.
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The canyon valley still appears fertile, and cottonwood trees line thecreekbed.
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