sluice
noun
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate sluice gate at the upper end for regulating the flow.
were sluicing
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past progressiveof sluice.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Once in Alaska he and a friend were sluicing at high speed along Prairie Creek, in the neighborhood of Mount McKinley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nakakita told us we would have to yell as if we were sluicing ourselves with water so the visitors would think we were going through the rites.
From Time Magazine Archive
By some accident or other, I found myself, in the winter of 1849, cook for a party of miners who were sluicing high up the North Fork of the American.
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes
High-booted scavengers with curious snake-like lengths of hose on little trolleys were sluicing the asphalt as the limousine snorted past the Mansion House into Poultney and Cheapside.
From Okewood of the Secret Service by Valentine Williams
The sailors were sluicing the deck with great hoses, and sprinkling it with little watering-cans of disinfectant.
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
