The phrase "a freshet" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a sudden flood or rush of water, often due to melting snow or heavy rain.
Example: "The river swelled with a freshet after the heavy rains, causing concern among the nearby residents."
Alternatives: "a flood" or "a deluge".
Predictably, this has produced a freshet of populist outrage.
The trickle of commentaries, if not yet a flood, is becoming a freshet.
To hear some tell it, that trickle may soon become a freshet.
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.
The tunnel became a kind of creek bed, a freshet in the spring, with nice grassy banks, and flowers that had run wild from the old gardens.
For weeks, President Bush and his advisers have believed it was pushed by a freshet of discontent that would blow itself out once the economic barometer rose a bit.
(Oddly enough, the wide open spaces and big, blue skies confound him a bit here, as they did in "A Life Less Ordinary".) Mr. Boyle and his squad are also gifted at shifts in tone, slipping from cheeky to dread in the same shot, like a gentle freshet with a pearly froth that pours into an ominous waterfall.
Or, if they have been transformed into jewelweed, they've lost that essence of all flowing water which unites the Amazon with a trifling spring freshet: a sense of oceanic propulsion.
The gutters ran with a liquor freshet, and the fumes filled and impregnated the air.
The results show increases in spring and winter flows for the two future periods at all hydrometric stations within the basin, resulting in an extended period of spring freshet.
The temperature of the South Thompson River during the spring freshet is generally not a problem for salmon [31].
