How to Use silt in a Sentence

silt

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• And yes, there was drought residue and silt and garbage.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• The once-hunter green beauty was now an ashen hue from all the silt.
  — Eileen Kelley, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2022
• So far, dredgers have tried to clear silt around the massive ship.
  — Jon Gambrell and Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• The true magic may lie in the soil, which is rich with river silt.
  — Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Just one concern: Plumes of silt kicked in the mining process.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
• The entire story of the Grand Canyon is one of wind, water, silt, and sand.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• Two of the dam’s three outlets for stormwater are blocked with silt.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The groups say runoff from the mine would cloud the water and fill the turtles’ rocky habitat with mud and silt.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2021
• In Phoenix's canal system, clam beds form where silt builds up.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• Ayad found nothing but smooth red silt where her house had been.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• Guides from the park lead groups of as many as 25 people through the glacial silt and mud at the glacier’s toe, over the rocky moraine and onto the white ice.
  — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
• After the lakebed dries out, contractors will be able to move the silt at the bottom.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
• To collect one ounce of gold, the miners must sift through nearly 30 tons of silt.
  — Kevin Monahan, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2022
• As the reservoir has shrunk, this silt, exposed to the sun, has formed what can best be described as mud glaciers.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• Any parts of the hull that weren't quickly buried by silt have long since decomposed in the water.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
• This process results in the different amounts of sand, clay and silt, three of the components of soil.
  — Mary Berube, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
• The water, a mix of silt and clay, is a ruddy chocolate brown all the way out to the estuary where the river meets the bay.
  — Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
• Overstreet dove and found the vehicle, a 1980s model, resting to the hood in silt.
  — Donna Thornton, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• But in this case, a layer of silt may have protected the ship from oxygen.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• The Espro, though, has a two-filter system to take out even the finest of dregs—it’s French press coffee without the silt.
  — Edmund Torr, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2020
• But as the silt and sand covering the wreck washed away, broken chests began to appear in 2010.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• The floods left behind a thick layer of rich silt, ideal for farming.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
• The island has only existed since around 2003, formed by a buildup of loose silt.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• The sun sparkles on the surface of Great Bay, the silt suspended in the murky water from the previous day’s rainfall.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2023
• Her 5-month-old calf Penelope was standing up to her knees in silt from the creek, shivering.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
• The silt covered and killed marine plants and bottom-dwelling creatures.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• In between the two in size is silt, a mix of rock dust and minerals often found in fertile flood plains.
  — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• In New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf, waves crash against cliffs and pull dirt into the ocean, while boats and storms stir up silt from the seafloor.
  — Doug Johnson, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2021
• That canal has now been drained so that crews can remove excess silt and debris while the Westfield bridge is closed and a new bridge is built.
  — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2024
• Coffman said the sediment flowing down the Klamath out of the reservoirs was composed of dead algae, fine silts and solids, and gravels.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024

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silt

2 of 2 verb

• The entrance to the creek had silted shut.
• Then there is the fact that the Bridgeport Harbor hasn’t been dredged since 1964 and some of its channels have silted in.
  — WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
• But neither removes the desert of sand that still silts up the wheels of Indian commerce.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• One flood, and a river honey hole is now a shallow, silted-in bar.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2020
• And once that soil was gone, it was gone for good, silting up the seabed and exposing the old bony rock beneath Europe’s soft topside.
  — Bella Bathurst, Newsweek, 29 May 2014
• In the end, the studies showed that changes in the tide dynamics would be detrimental to the environment — and that the barrages would silt up very quickly.
  — Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
• Malacca’s port, once one of the richest on earth, silted up, and the city became a historical footnote.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• But in the 1860s, gold mining and timbering had begun to silt up the high mountain spawning beds, covering and suffocating their eggs.
  — Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Climate change damages the streams where they are hatched, and not just by raising the water temperature: Droughts alter stream flow, forest fires destroy shoreline habitat, and mudslides silt up rivers.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2022
• Deep sea mining works by having vehicles on the ocean floor dig directly into the seabed, and this process releases silt, clay, and other sediments that are immediately carried away by the flow of water.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2020
• Elsewhere in the state, a smattering of farmers are trying other techniques for capturing nitrate—collecting it in engineered wetlands on their soggier fields, for example, or in silted-in oxbow river bends excavated to hold more water.
  — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
• The entrance to the creek had silted shut.
• Then there is the fact that the Bridgeport Harbor hasn’t been dredged since 1964 and some of its channels have silted in.
  — WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
• But neither removes the desert of sand that still silts up the wheels of Indian commerce.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• One flood, and a river honey hole is now a shallow, silted-in bar.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2020
• And once that soil was gone, it was gone for good, silting up the seabed and exposing the old bony rock beneath Europe’s soft topside.
  — Bella Bathurst, Newsweek, 29 May 2014
• In the end, the studies showed that changes in the tide dynamics would be detrimental to the environment — and that the barrages would silt up very quickly.
  — Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
• Malacca’s port, once one of the richest on earth, silted up, and the city became a historical footnote.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• But in the 1860s, gold mining and timbering had begun to silt up the high mountain spawning beds, covering and suffocating their eggs.
  — Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Climate change damages the streams where they are hatched, and not just by raising the water temperature: Droughts alter stream flow, forest fires destroy shoreline habitat, and mudslides silt up rivers.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2022
• Deep sea mining works by having vehicles on the ocean floor dig directly into the seabed, and this process releases silt, clay, and other sediments that are immediately carried away by the flow of water.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2020
• Elsewhere in the state, a smattering of farmers are trying other techniques for capturing nitrate—collecting it in engineered wetlands on their soggier fields, for example, or in silted-in oxbow river bends excavated to hold more water.
  — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017

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