During the hot summer months the children played near the creek.

I should be pretty near the creek by now, I realized.

Another modern version of the story goes like this: The mother and her family lived near the creek.

Those houses near the creek are the workers with families.

Now wouldn't you like to know just what happened down there near the creek last night?

"You and I will take the trail near the creek."

I spread out several of the rags on a flat stone near the creek.

It was built near the small creek named the Zorka.

In 1957, a teenager was shot while hiking near the creek.

There was a good bit of broken brush and dead stuff lying near the creek.