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

Since November, the gantry cranes that open and close the sluice gates have barely moved, though it was not clear if they had not been working.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

As the last sluice of lemonade slipped out of the cooler, a slick of mud poured out.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

Over time, the Maya built canals, dams, sluices and berms to direct, store and transport water.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2023

The human-made mudslides that resulted were directed through troughs known as sluices, which had grooves to catch flakes and nuggets of gold.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

The river sluices through a misty forest of lodgepole pines and Douglas firs, many skeletonized by wildfires, and starts into five miles of nearly continuous rapids.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

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

The rain was falling harder now, beating the roof of the refectory like the drums of war, running down the sluices in torrents.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

We sluiced into 2022 with another La Niña winter pattern bringing more snow and rain that lasted well into spring, yet again dampening gardeners’ spirits.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

Raw sewage had sluiced through the Oaks complex, and on Thursday, all 600 residents were being evacuated, guided onto school buses en route to temporary shelters, Mr. Bollwage said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Later, I bike down to Boise Whitewater Park, where two artificially sluiced standing waves draw kayakers and surfers but, alas, I’ll have to return to catch this.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2017

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

Fish and Wildlife Service, which otherwise protects the birds — the Corps in 2015 unleashed a concerted kill program on the cormorants to control predation on baby salmon sluicing downriver to the sea.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Then came the Industrial Revolution, crunching and sluicing away, and changing pretty much everything: social structures, urban spaces, land use, belief systems, historical topography, not to mention the chemical properties of earth, water and air.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

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

I spent a moment at Miss Maggie’s cistern, dusting myself off and sluicing rainwater over my head, before I met her at her door.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk