Sentence examples for silt up from inspiring English sources

These qualities can silt up a play.

Dredging can cause rivers to silt up, for example.

These small dams quickly silt up, forming new farmland.

The mouth of the river was beginning to silt up—a powerful symbol of over-exploitation.

Mr Molina claims that the upstream Jirau dam will silt up, shortening its useful life.

Effluent from agriculture and deforestation on the shore can silt up the water, and the encroachment of industry causes contamination.

The mouth of the Daqing, however, silted up almost immediately.

The port of Classis gradually silted up and was abandoned.

The lake has been silting up in recent centuries.

Whenever a head gate silted up, a cut was made around it.

Pelusium, Greek Pelousion, ancient Egyptian city on the easternmost mouth of the Nile River (long silted up).