freshet in a sentence

Examples

1. The landscape immediately surrounding the observatory is undulating, marked by cliffs and crevasses and a number of small rivers which can become impassable during freshet.
2. He was disintegrating fast, and you could almost hear Jackson Browne wailing in the freshets, " Runnin'on empty . . ."
3. At this orgasmic eruption, fish gather at her feet, and during peak moments she lets loose a freshet with the pressure of a fire hydrant.
4. On March 23, 2012, a high spring freshet coupled with an ice jam caused a rise in water levels surpassing those in the 1987 flood.
5. Following the river's east bank just metres above its water level ( frequently flooded in spring freshets ), the route continued south to Sussex.
6. An example of usage of the term " freshet " is shown in the text on a historic marker at Durgin Bridge near Sandwich, New Hampshire.
7. I wonder about the freshet of male desire every time I go to the drugstore to buy Advil or a can of cheese curls and walk past the magazine rack.
8. On January 26, 1839, historian Daniel Bowen wrote that a " great ice freshet . . . swept away one of the piers and two of its sections.
9. Hazards from flooding caused by the annual spring freshet of the Fraser River have been ameliorated by gates and pump stations complemented by the extensive dyke system flanking the Fraser.
10. Until the early 1890s, when rail lines reached the area, the lumbering industry used splash dams, creek freshets, and wagons to transport their lumber to the market.