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

Other heavy construction equipment including excavators and sluice and slurry pumps were brought in, as well as technical experts and "several hundred tons of gravel and earth", the US Army said.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Both the climbing wall and trampoline are $12, and a bag of rough at the mining sluice is $8.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

Then there was the time he fixed a broken sluice gate on the Hoover Dam and saved the lives of thousands of people who would have drowned if the dam had burst.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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 human-made mudslides that resulted were directed through troughs known as sluices, which had grooves to catch flakes and nuggets of gold.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

The panel came back with a suggestion that the country create an elaborate infrastructure of dikes, dams, storm barriers and sluices so that future catastrophic flooding will not occur.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2021

Ben asked when they had broken out of Ravenel County and in a hauntingly crepuscular light were shooting across a causeway where the locks and sluices of an old rice plantation were still visible.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

The trunk was worn from wear, and its fine end wobbled as he hauled the draggings back on board, which his companion then sluiced in a large sieve.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

Raw sewage had sluiced through the Oaks complex, and on Thursday, all 600 residents were being evacuated, guided onto school buses en route to temporary shelters, Mr. Bollwage said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

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

Water sluiced out of my trouser legs as I scrambled out of the pond.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The action sets sail with a hefty oceanic sequence where Edwards leans on his expertise in sluicing fins and underwater ka-thumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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

It might have been perspiration liquefying his hair dye, or sluicing the black polymer off his eyeglasses.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2020

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

A baker washes down the path, sluicing water into the gutter.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell