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

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

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