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• The old drainage pipe would oppilate whenever leaves and silt collected inside it.From the entry oppilate
• They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.From the entry fine
• The silt collects in the backward part of the tank.From the entry backward
• Silt, The Cub, Planet of Lana, and similar platformers demand a new term: the ‘Limbolike’.2022, Ari Notis, “Everyone Wants To Make The Next Limbo”, in Kotaku. From the entry limbolike
• They are karst caves which are filled with Late Pleistocene clay and silt deposits.2020 August 20, Sun Ji-Jia [孙吉嘉], Zhang Bei [张贝], Chen Xi [陈曦], Deng Li [邓里], Wen Jun [文军], Tong Hao-Wen [同号文], “New fossils of Late…. From the entry Shangli
• Taipa was once two islands that were slowly joined together by silt from the Pearl River.2017 May, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, “Macau”, in Hong Kong (Lonely Planet), 17th edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Taipa
• In the 19th century silt deposits began to block the harbour, and the city began to decline.2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224. From the entry backwater
• Now the estuary has silted up, and only small pleasure craft can sail up the narrow channel.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68. From the entry pleasure craft
• Behind us churns the Yellow River, looking viscous with its load of ocher silt.1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1. From the entry Shapotou
• Mountain torrents poured into it carrying silt and rocks down with them.1968 March 15, “Liang Chen-yu, a Good Cadre Reared on Mao Tse-tung's Thought”, in Peking Review, number 11, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry spate
• Each year, the river brought its deposit of rich, red silt at floodtime.1959, Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale, University of California Press, page 194. From the entry floodtime
• The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus.2008, Carol Roberts, “History of Discus”, in North American Discus Association, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2008. From the entry discus
• Even though the beavers had moved on, the silt remained as a deep, inviting, wet, and murky mass of quicksandlike mud.2004, Jim Hohnberger, Come to the Quiet, page 85. From the entry quicksandlike
• Shale is fine-grained rock made of silt or wet mud that has been lithified by compaction and cementation.2003, Ann G. Harris et al., Geology of National Parks, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry lithify
• China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water.2001, Kim Dramer, The Yellow River, Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry Yellow River
• This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour.2001, Kim Dramer, The Yellow River, Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry Yellow River
• The Yangtse carries less silt than the Yellow River.1958, Wang Chun-heng, “The Middle Yangtse Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages…. From the entry shore
• The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried.2008, Iain M. Banks, Matter, page 445. From the entry adit
• The taste was of sweetened silt and arabica beans that hadn't been gently roasted so much as charred to death in their very own auto-da-fé.2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 26. From the entry auto-da-fé
• Too close to the perpendicular, and silt will build up behind the waterbar; too small an angle will cause the trail to wash out.1987, Thomas H. Mikkelsen, Donald B. Neuwirth, Jake Widman, Public Beaches: An Owners' Manual, page 29. From the entry waterbar
• Away from the carrlands the alluvium is distinctly riverine, with vermiculitic or smectitic clay and a silt content of around 30 per cent.1984, Soil Survey Record of the Soil Survey of England and Wales, issues 81-85, page 16. From the entry carrland
• Sandhogs working behind a hydraulic shield excavated the riverbed silt inch by inch and installed linking sections of cast-iron tubes as they went.1975, E.L. Doctorow, chapter XIII, in Ragtime, page 77. From the entry sandhog
• Leaves had blocked downspoutings so that more grass, and even small bushes, grew in cracks and in the silt in the roof gutterings.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 230. From the entry downspouting

Meaning of silt

1. noun Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
2. noun Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
3. noun A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

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Questions about silt in a sentence

How do you use silt in a sentence?

Silt is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The old drainage pipe would oppilate whenever leaves and silt collected inside it.”

What is a short sentence with silt?

“The Yangtse carries less silt than the Yellow River.”

What does silt mean?

Silt means mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.