Example Sentences

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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

Here’s one from “Yogo: The Great American Sapphire” by Stephen M. Voynick: In 1895 in Yogo Gulch, in central Montana, a gold prospector named Jake Hoover found blue stones collecting in his sluices.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022

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

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