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

On duty in the sluice room Briony did the sums.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Postgraduate researcher David Vandercruyssen said: "High tides can be limited to existing levels simply by closing sluices and turbines and existing low tide levels can be maintained by pumping."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2024

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

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

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

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

"Have you ever seen a dragon?" she asked as Irri scrubbed her back and Jhiqui sluiced sand from her hair.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

Fish and Wildlife Service, which otherwise protects the birds — the Corps in 2015 unleashed a concerted kill program on the cormorants to control predation on baby salmon sluicing downriver to the sea.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

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

Rather than sluicing rain away, as would happen on a concrete or asphalt sidewalk, the permeable gravel allows water to seep down.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021

Loafers sluicing, hair dripping, holding her purchases in her arms, she made it into the bedroom and shut the door.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison