Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tideway
Noun
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And yet the current torrent, fuelled by years of planning in right-wing circles and by Trump’s demagogic energies, is hardly unstoppable.—
David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2025 -
The daily torrent of push alerts, breaking news, and viral outrages has been relentless — and exhausting.—
Sean Collins,
Vox,
28 Feb. 2025
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This option returns the pond to its full former glory including sluice gate repair, dredging the full pond area and recreational enhancements to include 5.7 acres of open water and two fishing platforms.—
Erik S. Hanley,
Journal Sentinel,
9 Dec. 2024
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In 2014, Kyrgyz and Tajik conscripts exchanged fire over a strategic sluice in Ak-Sai.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2016
Noun
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Or, on the spillway side, Riverhaven Drive resident Andrew Freund has been able to wade summer after summer into the peaceful, shallow, clear water below his and his wife Devon’s house with a snorkel and a mask on his head, surveying the bottom of the entire cove.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Feb. 2025
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If reservoirs fill to the top too quickly in big storms, large amounts of water are released down their spillways, causing flooding to homes and communities downstream.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2025
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Wilson’s New Freedom would open the sluiceways of competition by slashing tariffs, strengthening anti-trust laws and increasing access to credit.—
Richard Norton Smith,
WSJ,
19 Apr. 2018
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The town has opened the floodgate to the dam draining the pond behind it and allowing Roaring Brook to flow freely downstream through a sluiceway.—
Peter Marteka,
Courant Community,
12 Apr. 2018
Noun
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Blue Sky Surveying & Mapping Corp. failed to show a federal floodway overlapping the new city council chamber.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Feb. 2025
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Also in attendance: Nashville architect Alan Dooley, who helped the church win a historic designation for the building, and that allowed Metro Codes to issue permits for the rebuild, even though the building is (clearly) in a floodway.—
The Tennessean,
The Tennessean,
22 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Blue Hole Trail takes you to the eponymous spring, Trestle Point Trail follows the river, and Pine Ridge Trail is surrounded by longleaf pines approaching a huge sand hill.—
Casey Barber,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2025
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Last week, the search area for the boy was focused on the river, authorities said.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Tideway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tideway. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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