sluices
- present tense form of sluice (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Over time, the Maya built canals, dams, sluices and berms to direct, store and transport water.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2023
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
Then, when they had entered a large well-lit room that buzzed with metallic activity, the sluices opened and the flood of explanation poured forth again.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
