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

Yet after back-to-back atmospheric rivers walloped California in less than a week, it wouldn’t take much for water, mud and boulders to sluice down fragile hillsides, experts warned.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

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

I scooped more mud from the sluice and swirled it around in my pan.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

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

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 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

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

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

"Have you ever seen a dragon?" she asked as Irri scrubbed her back and Jhiqui sluiced sand from her hair.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

He turned the net inside out, dumping three sand eels into the pail and then sluicing in some water so they could breathe.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk