sluice
noun
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate sluice gate at the upper end for regulating the flow.
is sluicing
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present progressiveof sluice (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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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
This year the bureau is sluicing 68% more water through Hoover Dam to prepare for the big thaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Southwest, five lives have been claimed so far by the swift Colorado River, which is sluicing over dikes, sandbag barriers and splashboards.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's molded-in, which is a plus, but it has a sand-like finish, which I've found doesn't work very well when green water is sluicing over the decks.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the chuprassis, his gaudy uniform laid aside, and clad in a fragment of cotton, is sluicing himself with water and praying audibly.
From Olivia in India by O. Douglas
