sluice

How To Use sluice In A Sentence

• The buildings are long gone, but some foundations are still there, as well as the nearby mill stream and part of a dam and sluiceway.
• What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
• If rain falls into the bird's mouth, theoretically it could sluice down the windpipe past the larynx and into the lungs.
• On the other side of the wall on the right is the sluicegate. Hyde Daily Photo
• SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run. The Short-story
• Then, finally throwing the switch he opened the floodgate to the sluice, and let the water roll out into the place that was once the White River.
• What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
• Sadly, the remains of the mill itself were demolished on safety grounds in the late 1950s, but the mill lades, complete with sluice gate, survive and form an attractive feature of the gardens.
• Ramirez turned the taps, and hot water sluiced into the vast bath as he walked around the gargantuan chamber, pulling various bottles out of the cabinets that lined the upper reaches, sealed against the invasion of water.
• This had caused levels in the lodge to fluctuate and water had to be diverted from the stream via a sluice.