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- 01. Volunteers are cleaning garbage out of the [stream] in the hopes of making it clean enough for fish to live in once again.02. John V. Politis once observed that we come and go just like ripples in a [stream].03. Woodrow Wilson once remarked that the man who is swimming against the [stream] knows the strength of it.04. All the fish in the [stream] have died since the factory was built.05. A thin [stream] of blood was trickling down his forehead from where he had been hit.06. We have had a constant [stream] of realtors and potential buyers come to our house since we put it up for sale, but no one has made an offer as of yet.07. We watched the salmon fighting their way up the [stream] to where they would spawn.08. There is a Chinese proverb which observes that learning is like rowing [upstream]; not to advance is to drop back.09. There is a Japanese proverb which states that one can stand still in a flowing [stream], but not in a world of men.10. Although beavers live near rivers, [streams], and lakes, they do not eat fish.11. Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in a dim light or if they are placed in a body of running water such as a [stream].12. A balloon released into the jet [stream] would take two weeks to travel completely around the globe.13. The Amazon River has 1,100 tributary [streams].14. In May, the small [streams] of the African nation of Burkina Faso swell to become chains of lakes.15. The little girl stood looking at her broken toy with tears [streaming] down her face.16. People were [streaming] out of the hall where the concert had taken place when we walked by.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.