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How to use sluices in a sentence

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Locally the sluices and waterways from the flood plain to the river are in several cases clogged up.
It consisted of a replica cogwheel with wire rope and was intended to symbolise the technology used in operating the sluices.
These are then used to keep the cruiser steady as water sluices out of the lock.
Ashore a spume of brine water rains from an overhanging crag and sluices back through the beach.
He chops wood, mows his own field, goes knee-deep into mud to clean sluices in his own pond, prunes back elder trees and picks pears.
Another option is to open sluices, releasing water and lowering river levels.
Leave to marinate for a good 4-6 hours, then serve them, scattered with the capers, with hunks of bread or on thin sluices of garlicky bruschetta.
Before the construction of dams and barrages, floodwaters would spill out of the river's banks and, channeled by sluices and dikes, cover most of the agricultural land.
If the sluices were co-ordinated with the tidal barrier the whole water level from Malton to Barmby could be drastically lowered and reduce flooding.
The fields are bounded by drainage ditches and sluices are now being added so that the water levels can be controlled to provide the optimum conditions.
Since acquiring the redundant farmland the trust has carried out a programme of restoration which has included restoring sluices, re-opening waterways and a grazing policy.
The duty of repairing banks and sluices devolved upon frontagers, but the works were neglected and many petitions were put to the King by people who suffered flooding.
Most aqueduct systems included sedimentation tanks, sluices and distribution tanks to regulate the supply at need.
Local artisanal miners have been recovering gold from gold-bearing saprolitic soils and weathered bedrock using pans, monitors and sluices.
Another version of the legend says that she stole the silver key to admit her lover, mistakenly opening the sluices in the dark.
The sluices are protected against damage from drifting vessels by large concrete barriers.
Five sets of sluices and two weirs are used to control the canal's depth.
A walkway over the weir is likely to be useful for the removal of floating debris trapped by the weir, or for working staunches and sluices on it as the rate of flow changes.
Williams' plan was to dredge a channel between a set of retaining walls, and build a series of locks and sluices to lift incoming vessels up to Manchester.
Examples from Classical Literature
However, be that as it might, not one of them but knew how to open the sluices.
In some quartz-mill sluices there are transverse riffle-bars.
Besides, as the fosses were lower than, or on a level with the sea, these fosses could be instantly inundated by means of subterranean sluices.
It is a creek or inlet from the Thames, and can always be filled at high water by opening the sluices at the Lead Mills from which it took its old name.
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