silted

past tense of silt

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for silted
Verb
  • Fans flooded social media with emotional reactions to the photo, citing the pair's past feud as part of its significance.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That honesty resonated with parents and teachers alike, many of whom flooded her comments with support.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • What, if any, holes in that lineup are still needed to be filled either by free agency or trade?
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The cool colors seemed colder, the warm ones red-hot, and the subtle gradations across the spectrum were seemingly infinite and filled with rich detail.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In true Swiftie fashion, social media has fast become inundated with fans combing through each lyric of the 12-track record for Easter eggs about Swift's life, double entendres, and hints at who certain tracks might be about.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some affiliates of both Nexstar and Sinclair had been inundated with calls from frustrated Kimmel fans in recent days.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.
    Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In 1999 and 2000, new offerings swamped the market's ability to absorb it, cutting off the flow of IPO proceeds to Internet companies that were meant to be the revenues of bigger tech companies.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Piastri jumped the start, then got swamped on the grid after his anti-stall system kicked in.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Silted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silted. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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