silt

Example Sentences

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The bee began digging into the fine clay-rich silt that had built up in the darker parts of the cave.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

However, it could now flush silt from its reservoirs without prior warning - potentially causing damage downstream in Pakistan.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

Municipal wells typically draw drinking water from hundreds of feet underground, often tapping into aquifers that lie beneath impermeable clay and silt layers called aquitards.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

Prior to the 11th Century, the Cholas had been one among the many squabbling powers that dotted the Kaveri floodplain, the great body of silt that flows through India's present-day state of Tamil Nadu.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

The equipment revealed that below the silt, where they had begun to look, there was something huge waiting to be uncovered.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler