Sentence examples for sluices opened from inspiring English sources

The model was also easy to tinker with: valves could be loosened, sluices opened and taps tightened.

When the deep sluice opened at low tide, a powerful undertow sucked the silt into the river to be carried away on the next tide.

The sluices are opened at slack tide to discharge river water to the sea and are always closed at flood tide.

By 1820, the sluices were opened and water rushed in to fill the 94-mile middle section, from Utica to Montezuma.

That the Belgian Army should withdraw to the line of the Yser and stand there, the sluices being opened.

When the torrents subsided in the late autumn the sluices were opened, and thus the fields were irrigated with silt-bearing water, but the deposit was not as thick as what the peasants call 'steamed cake silt' (so they were not satisfied).

With young workers from Eastern Europe, he opened sluices from the sea and set up a system of dams to control the water flow.

These canals had sluices that were opened and closed to control the water flow.

Those on board bring the boat in, throw out the ropes to those on land who thread them around bollards and throw them back, then close the gates, close the sluices, walk around, open the other sluices, wait for water to go up or down, open the gates, climb back on board and go.

The government appears to have bowed to pressure from angry residents in the east of the city who demanded a local sluice gate be opened to allow more water to flow out of their flooded neighbourhood.

At low tide, the sluice gates were opened, and the flow scoured out silt from the river bed for some 3 mile downstream.