Sentence examples for a silt of from inspiring English sources

It contains also a silt of threads and fragments from the sumps of the world's washing-machines.

But the questions he asked, the details he remembered, related to a few decades that for him had the freshness and urgency of youthful memories but that for his friends were buried beneath a silt of decades, of thousands of days spent in this same territory, maturing, marrying, childbearing, burying parents, laboring, retiring.

Glanert's colours and textures are carefully varied: a silt of dank harps and quivering flutes for the maddened emperor, twinkling celesta and tart clarinet for the amoral eunuch Helicon (counter-tenor Christopher Ainslie), a perfumed web of strings for Caesonia, wife, witness and willing victim.

(Lenin in his coffin hasn't been seen for 90 years, ironically, because he couldn't be shown dead). The brief but soaring flight of the Russian avant garde falls to earth in a silt of Stalinist kitsch, and what follows is condensed in the intensely moving Room of Memory.

He glides along the tiles, which are covered by a silt layer of plaster dust from one of his sculptures in progress.

Test results show that the void ratio, volumetric frozen water content, shear strength, and shear wave velocity are at a minimum near a silt fraction of 30%.

Its base is sedimentary: coconut and chopped walnuts bound together by a buttery silt of cocoa and crushed graham crackers.

The river of colloquial English carries a heavy silt of mildly pejorative or satirical epithets: egghead, boffin, highbrow, bluestocking, know-all, telly don, media don, chattering classes, too clever by half.

With such a rich silt of xenophobia to sift through, it seems, most people aren't paying attention to the alternative.

All crops were grown on bare soil, a silt loam typical of southern Illinois.

She lives on Holdibari Char, a silt island in middle of the Teesta River in north-western Bangladesh.