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

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

Then, when they had entered a large well-lit room that buzzed with metallic activity, the sluices opened and the flood of explanation poured forth again.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

Pulp sluiced in and cascaded onto the “former,” where it was flattened into a paperlike consistency.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

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

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

Slithering beads of rain sluiced down my window.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

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

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

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