How to Use sluice in a Sentence

sluice

noun

• Buy a bag of mixed rough stones at the Gift Shop and head for the sluice.
  — Courant Community, 10 Apr. 2018
• His tiebreaking hit was the speck of gold in so many dull sluice pans.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
• The rocks fall to the ground in a big pile, and silt settles in riffles on the sloping ramp of the sluice.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• On a recent morning, not a drop came out of the dam’s sluices.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2016
• Split the difference with a plate of both, topped with meaty bolognese and a sluice of béchamel.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2019
• The flow was sucked uphill and burst onto a sluice tray, lined with a layer of felt that trapped the gold.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• That date, a watershed of life, not just of hers, the sluice gate of a dam on the river that blocks the waters’ flow.
  — Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• The man ended up trapped at the entrance of a sluice pipe that runs under the roadway as his wife called 911.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2020
• Or, slice the leeks lengthwise and hold the cut sides under a tap, letting the cascade of water sluice away the dirt.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2021
• Water poured into the Full Basin through sluice gates at high tide, and was let out of the Receiving Basin at low tide.
  — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Instead, he’s opened a sluice at the border and hopes, through subterfuge, to keep people from noticing.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Feb. 2022
• Mining, for the Joneses, involved a bulldozer and a steel, 100-foot sluice box.
  — Author: Abigail Curtis, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2020
• It is thought that water was once carried through this sluice in terra-cotta pipes.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• This pond also treats some of the runoff from Hess Road and uses a sluice gate to remove salts and other pollutants.
  — The Aegis, 25 Jan. 2018
• To tunnel under walkways, attach a pointed sluice nozzle to a length of PVC pipe.
  — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021
• In the nearest crater, the crewmen were running a pump off a small generator, washing mud toward a sluice with a hose.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Water that sluices through the dike during the wet season may be enough to bring some fish farms back to what was once the main part of the lake, but that's—quite literally—just a drop in the bucket.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2018
• Recipes might include sluices of soy sauce and calamansi and toppings of shrimp heads, quail eggs, shucked oysters or chicharron.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• And the influence of the money power goes beyond the money that sluices into campaigns.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Aug. 2017
• In summer, runoff from cloudbursts etches into the softer limestones and sluices through the deep runnels.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019
• Buttresses at the dam’s concrete sluice gates, controlling the flow of water, have thinned from damage.
  — USA Today, 17 Nov. 2022
• The standard mining setup consists of a loud pump, a heavy hose, a conveyor belt going up, and a sluice box going down.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Suction dredging sucks the river bottom up and through a sluice to isolate gold flakes; then the sediment is sent back into the river.
  — Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2010
• But a torrent of steel-gray water spills through the concrete sluice, forming the beginnings of the Connecticut River.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• For many critics, this sluice of cash was not the only troubling feature of Citizens United.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• Or it may be charred twice, pulled apart and tucked, still warm, into a whole-wheat roti made to order, with a final sluice of tomato and mint chutneys and a scattering of onions and cilantro.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Our son delighted in sifting through mining rough in the water sluice to discover fool's gold, rose quartz, malachite and lapis lazuli.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2017
• During July’s floods, which ranked among the worst in years, Nepali officials said India had kept some of the embankments’ sluice gates closed for too long, despite requests to open them.
  — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2019
• Kids can dump their mining rough into a mining sluice outside the cave entrance and discover their treasures.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2019
• Suction dredge miners use an underwater hose to suck up gravel and sort it for gold in a sluice box mounted on a watercraft.
  — Keith Ridler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024