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

Other heavy construction equipment including excavators and sluice and slurry pumps were brought in, as well as technical experts and "several hundred tons of gravel and earth", the US Army said.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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

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

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

Outside in front of the station the stream roars alongside the street, it rushes foaming from the sluices of the mill bridge.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

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

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

Some water splashed over the front, but not more than a few gallons, and it sluiced quickly off the sides.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

Dump trucks carried the soil to an immense sluicing operation, where water from two reservoirs washed away dirt to reveal gold nuggets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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

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

Ruby’s riot of hair had gone otter-pelt sleek, still sluicing off the remnants of rain.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor