How to Use sluice in a Sentence

sluice

1 of 2 noun

• His tiebreaking hit was the speck of gold in so many dull sluice pans.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
• On a recent morning, not a drop came out of the dam’s sluices.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2016
• Buy a bag of mixed rough stones at the Gift Shop and head for the sluice.
  — Courant Community, 10 Apr. 2018
• Split the difference with a plate of both, topped with meaty bolognese and a sluice of béchamel.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2019
• The rocks fall to the ground in a big pile, and silt settles in riffles on the sloping ramp of the sluice.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• It is thought that water was once carried through this sluice in terra-cotta pipes.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• That date, a watershed of life, not just of hers, the sluice gate of a dam on the river that blocks the waters’ flow.
  — Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Or, slice the leeks lengthwise and hold the cut sides under a tap, letting the cascade of water sluice away the dirt.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2021
• Dump the remaining gravel through a sluice box to remove lighter sand and small rocks, which filter into a gold pan.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
• The man ended up trapped at the entrance of a sluice pipe that runs under the roadway as his wife called 911.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2020
• Recipes might include sluices of soy sauce and calamansi and toppings of shrimp heads, quail eggs, shucked oysters or chicharron.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Some residents said the country club contribues to flooding by opening its sluice gate when rain is forecast.
  — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
• In summer, runoff from cloudbursts etches into the softer limestones and sluices through the deep runnels.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019
• Charlie got into the shower, letting the hot water sluice off the rest of the blood on her back and whatever had dried in her hair.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
• Buttresses at the dam’s concrete sluice gates, controlling the flow of water, have thinned from damage.
  — USA Today, 17 Nov. 2022
• Kids can dump their mining rough into a mining sluice outside the cave entrance and discover their treasures.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2019
• In the nearest crater, the crewmen were running a pump off a small generator, washing mud toward a sluice with a hose.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• The archways are furnished with sluice gates that can open to allow excess water to pass through in periods of flooding.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
• The standard mining setup consists of a loud pump, a heavy hose, a conveyor belt going up, and a sluice box going down.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• And the influence of the money power goes beyond the money that sluices into campaigns.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Aug. 2017
• Suction dredge miners use an underwater hose to suck up gravel and sort it for gold in a sluice box mounted on a watercraft.
  — Keith Ridler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
• Our son delighted in sifting through mining rough in the water sluice to discover fool's gold, rose quartz, malachite and lapis lazuli.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2017
• This pond also treats some of the runoff from Hess Road and uses a sluice gate to remove salts and other pollutants.
  — The Aegis, 25 Jan. 2018
• Suction dredging sucks the river bottom up and through a sluice to isolate gold flakes; then the sediment is sent back into the river.
  — Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2010
• Mining, for the Joneses, involved a bulldozer and a steel, 100-foot sluice box.
  — Author: Abigail Curtis, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2020
• For many critics, this sluice of cash was not the only troubling feature of Citizens United.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• Water poured into the Full Basin through sluice gates at high tide, and was let out of the Receiving Basin at low tide.
  — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Or it may be charred twice, pulled apart and tucked, still warm, into a whole-wheat roti made to order, with a final sluice of tomato and mint chutneys and a scattering of onions and cilantro.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Water that sluices through the dike during the wet season may be enough to bring some fish farms back to what was once the main part of the lake, but that's—quite literally—just a drop in the bucket.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2018
• Another signature activity will be gemstone mining, a sluice where children can pick out rocks, shells and gemstones.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022

sluice

2 of 2 verb

• The old world was dissolving, all the grime of the past sluicing away in digital rain.
  — Steve Erickson, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2017
• The only noise is our motorboat sluicing through caramel water.
  — Ewen Bell, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
• Sunlight refracted in pale sprays off the city’s glass, and water sluiced down drains and pipes, onto windowsills.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• Markets are often watery because they are sluiced down, or because of the melting of the ice used to stop food from spoiling.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2020
• The precious metal is washed out of the dirt with which it is mixed by a panning, sluicing or washing process in the river below.
  — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019
• Eventually, the Maya built a system of canals, dams, and sluices to store and transport water.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
• Spanish cinema is sluiced by a winning sense of genre, movies hitting or very often subverting genre tropes.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
• Then there's the money sluicing in -- projected in short order to be $50 billion per annum.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Panning or sluicing for shiny flakes in a stream near Blewett Pass — or anywhere the gold bug takes you — can be rewarding in more ways than one.
  — Jeff Layton, The Seattle Times, 9 Aug. 2017
• One option, which has not yet been attempted, is to sluice live king salmon to her from the back of a boat as a way to get medicine into her, as well as critical hydration.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
• Nineteenth century miners flocked to Otago to dredge, pan, and sluice its lucrative waters.
  — Bill Morris, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
• Needing to catch fire Friday, despite teeing off in sluicing rain, the four-time major champion hunkered down to the task.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 19 July 2019
• An erotic craving is inextricable from the ferment that foams up when oneself is sluiced into another.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• More geographically perceptive people pointed out that the stadium sits on top of a hill, from which water would sluice back down into the city’s basin.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The valley functioned as a drain for the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, sluicing trillions of gallons of water out to the ocean every spring.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• The Studios’ launch catches Brazil’s film and TV in the first full flush of growth, sluiced by public funding with more quite possibly on the way.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 June 2024
• For decades coal fired power plants disposed of this material by sluicing the ash and the residue collected in pollution control devices into unlined ash ponds on the banks of rivers.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Republicans have documented the ungodly amount of foreign money that sluiced through Biden accounts.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
• The crew of the Fitzgerald seemed to figure out the source of the flooding, isolating the affected chambers while setting up pumps to sluice the water overboard, Lopez said.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2017
• This is a girl who loves the feel of water sluicing around her limbs, who until recently was working on her underwater swimming, who takes every opportunity to spend time in the water.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• Year after year, its waters erode and sluice rock away from mountains, liberating precious metals and whisking them to lowlands, where they are deposited among sediments in riverbeds and floodplains.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 11 Jan. 2023
• For decades, many of the waste products from burning coal for electricity were sluiced into wet ponds on-site at the power plants, with solid particles settling out into the ponds, but water from the ponds overflowing into the rivers.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• This past year, wildfires and mudslides have ravaged California, and hurricanes have sluiced through Houston and Puerto Rico.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Republic, 9 May 2018
• Main Street, also known as Frederick Road, was transformed into a waterway over the weekend, as brown water sluiced through town, destroying shops and upending cars.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 28 May 2018
• Or simply girls like herself raised to womanhood in the Midwest, beside a steel mill, in a small house obsessively painted and sluiced with Fels-Naptha as though at any moment they might be forced to leave.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• The complex is carefully maintained, right down to the large outdoor pool into which housekeeper/chef/doggedly loyal factotum Angela (Vera Barreto) is sluicing chlorine as the film opens.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2023
• Even in an era when industrial-scale mining has been introduced in the region, independent gold miners are still digging and sluicing in the nearby Klondike Valley, using excavators and diesel pumps, as well as shovels and gold pans.
  — Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019
• In public at least, the chief executives of China’s data oligopolies, including Alibaba and Tencent, are evangelists for the project that requires them to sluice gushers of consumer data to state superhubs.
  — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• Today, money sluices through the Olympics—although only a small fraction of it is flowing to the athletes, with most of it going to corporate executives, not to mention the directors of the International Olympic Committee.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024