sluice

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

As the tide ebbs the water is released through a sluice, which pushes a water wheel, which turns the grinding stones.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023

A combination of damaged sluice gates and high water might tear away a few gates, but would not be expected to rip apart so much of the dam, the professor said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Moving quietly, she swam across the millpond to the sluice and climbed up the wall.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2023

Here’s one from “Yogo: The Great American Sapphire” by Stephen M. Voynick: In 1895 in Yogo Gulch, in central Montana, a gold prospector named Jake Hoover found blue stones collecting in his sluices.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

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 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

The trunk was worn from wear, and its fine end wobbled as he hauled the draggings back on board, which his companion then sluiced in a large sieve.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

His administration joined forces with Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and sluiced money into assisted housing for the mentally ill.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2020

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

She found Jaqen soaking in a tub, steam rising around him as a serving girl sluiced hot water over his head.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

At many points we can see — and often hear — the river, a vein of quenching green sluicing far below.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2021

The renovation architects, ARM Architecture, settled on sluicing in small-footprint glass elevators on outside corners of each of the complex’s halls.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

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