Finally, the arroyo is too strong and takes the taxi away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Colombia: Living with Flooding in Barranquilla] Reference

But in 1846, when the lieutenant was here, the arroyo was a creek, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Headless Horse]

Portuguese 'I learned that "arroyo" was "arrogo" in my Portuguese class, even though it sounded wrong to me.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [On linguistic dreams] Reference

There was a Mayor Oscar arroyo whose name matches 'arroyo' the name in Spanish for "creek.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lede] Reference

Before noon there was neither creek nor arroyo, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

He was looking along the arroyo for a strayed burro.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

You said you were going to walk down by the old arroyo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sweetness] Reference

Simpson overlooked so commonplace a subject as an arroyo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

A 15-year-old boy dragged along the arroyo by raging waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2006] Reference

Somewhere back in a forgotten arroyo a coyote yapped lonesomely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Furrows] Reference

The astroplane rested in a small arroyo not much wider than its own hull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natives of Space]

He was swept five miles down a flooded arroyo before they finally got to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2006] Reference

Floristic diversity and structure of plan and arroyo forests of coastal Jalisco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalisco dry forests] Reference

In Hatch, the heavy rain breached an arroyo swamping the town in waist - deep water.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2006] Reference

The existing Chaco arroyo is at least the third of its kind, according to Bryan (1941).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

As Mike said, you know, it just so happens to be that we were the ones down there in the arroyo.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2006] Reference

ANDRADE: After that intense moment, the 15-year-old is pulled out of the arroyo and into safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2006] Reference

They understand the orphan arroyo; they intuit the numinous prairie; they predict a wooly suburbia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bison's Alimony] Reference

To it must be added the small mound or promontory found further south on the east bank of the arroyo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

To the west the fractured land fell away into a shallow arroyo maybe forty feet wide and twenty deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

Clearly, a truck there trying to get through the dry wash -- because it usually dry -- through the arroyo.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2008] Reference

She reached the little arroyo spanned by the dry bridge; it was like a mill-pond, and the track was afloat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference

"All right," he announced, "is it an arroyo or has the hose used in putting out 'the fire' suddenly burst?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference

The pilot drifted west a little and dropped a couple of hundred feet and turned to line up with the arroyo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

There were lesser structures here and there and a horse pasture south of the arroyo, at the foot of The Gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

Hosteen Beyal stated emphatically that there was no arroyo above the mouth of Escavada Wash when he was a boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

Burleigh and Lowery (1942: 191) obtained a female in an arroyo about twenty miles west of Saltillo on April 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference

Page view page image: when he rode through Chaco Canyon in 1849, at the inception of the present arroyo system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

In 2003 he ruled against protecting the rare California toad -- arroyo toad, that is -- writing it just like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2005] Reference

There are other ruins yet further south on the western bank of the arroyo, which, however, I shall not mention here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

And that one guy that was caught in the arroyo there in Albuquerque, part of the same system that made all the rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2006] Reference

Successive floods uprooted the windmill on an arroyo bar west of Una Vida and gnawed at the talus under the nearby cliff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference