Example Sentences

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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

Over time, a growing share of Dutch citizens worked in commercial interests and industries in port cities protected by an extensive network of dikes and sluices.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2018

The rain was falling harder now, beating the roof of the refectory like the drums of war, running down the sluices in torrents.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz