silt

Example Sentences

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Each year around June when the rains came, its waters would gather in might, churning with rich silt, flooding the plains, and bestowing abundant harvests for farmers and catches for fishermen.

From Literature

The water was dark with churned up mud and silt.

From Literature

The soil here was patched; some was still rich brown, but some had changed to a gray-black silt.

From Literature

Ms Maiklem has written four books about mudlarking, which was historically a trade of poor Victorians and is now a popular hobby involving unearthing historical artefacts from the silt on river banks.

From BBC

Then, ever so slowly and carefully, the world’s first successful combat submarine was lifted out of the silt and clay of the harbor bottom.

From Literature