sluicing
- present participle of sluice.
Example Sentences
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The action sets sail with a hefty oceanic sequence where Edwards leans on his expertise in sluicing fins and underwater ka-thumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
Fish and Wildlife Service, which otherwise protects the birds — the Corps in 2015 unleashed a concerted kill program on the cormorants to control predation on baby salmon sluicing downriver to the sea.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
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
It was less than 48 hours after the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through New York City, bringing rushing water that had risen to over six feet, engulfing basements and sluicing through upper floors.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
I spent a moment at Miss Maggie’s cistern, dusting myself off and sluicing rainwater over my head, before I met her at her door.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
