sluice

The farm includes a series of 16th Century stone sluice gates, one of the earliest water management systems ever recorded in England.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

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 we slosh buckets of water across the floorboards, using push brooms to sluice the resulting muck from the car.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Over time, the Maya built canals, dams, sluices and berms to direct, store and transport water.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2023

In response, officials undertook the Delta Works, a massive nationwide system of levees, sluices, dikes, dams and sea gates.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

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

Despite improvements to some internal communal areas, many of the showers, stairways and sluices were dirty, along with cramped cells, many having broken windows.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2017

Outside in front of the station the stream roars alongside the street, it rushes foaming from the sluices of the mill bridge.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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 storm surge then sluiced over the sides of the bay and rapidly inundated the area with water.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018

Later, I bike down to Boise Whitewater Park, where two artificially sluiced standing waves draw kayakers and surfers but, alas, I’ll have to return to catch this.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2017

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

Meltwater sluiced furiously down innumerable surface and subterranean channels, creating a ghostly harmonic rumble that resonated through the body of the glacier.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Dump trucks carried the soil to an immense sluicing operation, where water from two reservoirs washed away dirt to reveal gold nuggets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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 was less than 48 hours after the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through New York City, bringing rushing water that had risen to over six feet, engulfing basements and sluicing through upper floors.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

For decades TVA, like other utilities, primarily dealt with this waste by sluicing it into unlined pits and impoundments.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2019

I spent a moment at Miss Maggie’s cistern, dusting myself off and sluicing rainwater over my head, before I met her at her door.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk