sluice
noun
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate sluice gate at the upper end for regulating the flow.
sluiced
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past participleof sluice.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof sluice.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
sluicenounan artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate sluice gate at the upper end for regulating the flow.
Example Sentences
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The storm surge then sluiced over the sides of the bay and rapidly inundated the area with water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
Gaze into one facet, and you see nothing between downtown and the Ship Canal but asphalt and concrete; what used to be Queen Anne Hill has been sluiced away, filling much of Lake Union.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
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
The Goose Fair was sluiced from a bowl of starry dark.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
