How to Use silt in a Sentence

silt

noun

• And yes, there was drought residue and silt and garbage.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• The once-hunter green beauty was now an ashen hue from all the silt.
  — Eileen Kelley, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2022
• So far, dredgers have tried to clear silt around the massive ship.
  — Jon Gambrell and Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• The true magic may lie in the soil, which is rich with river silt.
  — Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Just one concern: Plumes of silt kicked in the mining process.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
• The entire story of the Grand Canyon is one of wind, water, silt, and sand.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• Two of the dam’s three outlets for stormwater are blocked with silt.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The groups say runoff from the mine would cloud the water and fill the turtles’ rocky habitat with mud and silt.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2021
• In Phoenix's canal system, clam beds form where silt builds up.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• Ayad found nothing but smooth red silt where her house had been.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• Guides from the park lead groups of as many as 25 people through the glacial silt and mud at the glacier’s toe, over the rocky moraine and onto the white ice.
  — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
• After the lakebed dries out, contractors will be able to move the silt at the bottom.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
• To collect one ounce of gold, the miners must sift through nearly 30 tons of silt.
  — Kevin Monahan, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2022
• As the reservoir has shrunk, this silt, exposed to the sun, has formed what can best be described as mud glaciers.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• Any parts of the hull that weren't quickly buried by silt have long since decomposed in the water.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
• This process results in the different amounts of sand, clay and silt, three of the components of soil.
  — Mary Berube, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
• The water, a mix of silt and clay, is a ruddy chocolate brown all the way out to the estuary where the river meets the bay.
  — Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
• Overstreet dove and found the vehicle, a 1980s model, resting to the hood in silt.
  — Donna Thornton, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• But in this case, a layer of silt may have protected the ship from oxygen.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• The Espro, though, has a two-filter system to take out even the finest of dregs—it’s French press coffee without the silt.
  — Edmund Torr, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2020
• But as the silt and sand covering the wreck washed away, broken chests began to appear in 2010.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• The floods left behind a thick layer of rich silt, ideal for farming.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
• The island has only existed since around 2003, formed by a buildup of loose silt.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• The sun sparkles on the surface of Great Bay, the silt suspended in the murky water from the previous day’s rainfall.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2023
• Her 5-month-old calf Penelope was standing up to her knees in silt from the creek, shivering.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
• The silt covered and killed marine plants and bottom-dwelling creatures.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• In between the two in size is silt, a mix of rock dust and minerals often found in fertile flood plains.
  — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• In New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf, waves crash against cliffs and pull dirt into the ocean, while boats and storms stir up silt from the seafloor.
  — Doug Johnson, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2021
• Both winds drive silt into the house and are responsible for the area’s rich topsoil.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2021
• Make sure mushrooms are clean of any dirt, silt, or other debris.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024