sluice

In 2015, the Countryside Regeneration Trust raised money to restore the sluice gates.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

People on social media brandish gold-flecked pans and nuggets while showing off their equipment, ranging from old-fashioned picks to gold-separating sluice boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

At the mining sluice, kids can pan for up to 20 gemstones and treasures.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

Then there was the time he fixed a broken sluice gate on the Hoover Dam and saved the lives of thousands of people who would have drowned if the dam had burst.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Sometimes they can be overgrown with vegetation or, in the case of drains and sluices, blocked.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

Postgraduate researcher David Vandercruyssen said: "High tides can be limited to existing levels simply by closing sluices and turbines and existing low tide levels can be maintained by pumping."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2024

In response, officials undertook the Delta Works, a massive nationwide system of levees, sluices, dikes, dams and sea gates.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

The panel came back with a suggestion that the country create an elaborate infrastructure of dikes, dams, storm barriers and sluices so that future catastrophic flooding will not occur.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2021

Ben asked when they had broken out of Ravenel County and in a hauntingly crepuscular light were shooting across a causeway where the locks and sluices of an old rice plantation were still visible.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Everything still reeked of smoke, and when the first rains came, black water sluiced through the streets.

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021

Marshland is born of rivers: as silt is sluiced down from the land to the sea, the tides in turn lift it back onto the land.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018

Gaze into one facet, and you see nothing between downtown and the Ship Canal but asphalt and concrete; what used to be Queen Anne Hill has been sluiced away, filling much of Lake Union.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2018

If true, it would have largely defeated the purpose of requiring the keycard insertion—not to mention all those sluiced doors and biometrics and PIN codes—in the first place.

From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2016

As soiled water sluiced down the table legs, we transferred Yakov to a slotted board attached to the pulley system overhead.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The action sets sail with a hefty oceanic sequence where Edwards leans on his expertise in sluicing fins and underwater ka-thumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

Thawing permafrost is undermining Indigenous villages, summer sea ice is vanishing, and water is sluicing off Greenland’s ice sheet in record amounts.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2021

It was less than 48 hours after the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through New York City, bringing rushing water that had risen to over six feet, engulfing basements and sluicing through upper floors.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

It might have been perspiration liquefying his hair dye, or sluicing the black polymer off his eyeglasses.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2020

Loafers sluicing, hair dripping, holding her purchases in her arms, she made it into the bedroom and shut the door.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison