Sentence examples for through the silt from inspiring English sources

On Friday, the plow, using jets of water to cut through the silt and clay, began threading the cables into the trench at the tortoise-like pace of about 325 feet per hour.

Some, like the Solomon's seal whose snake-like shoots we found forcing their way through the silt left by winter floods, may well be relicts from gardens of water mills that disappeared long ago.

That fight-or-flight animal impulse trickles through the silt down into his guests, too.

We finally arrived at the deep excavations where hundreds of people dig by hand through the silt water working to find a speckle of hope.

I came here to dig through the silt, so, with five minutes remaining in my dive, I cup my first handful without stirring up the rest and watch it dissolve into a brown haze before my eyes.

Underground drainage may prevent salinisation; channels in the dam can allow some of the silt through; fish-ladders allow certain migrating fish, such as salmon, to continue their journeys.

Digging down through the centuries silt.

By Jean Batchelor The New Yorker, May 20 , 1939P. 72 Digging down through the centuries silt View Article By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Robin Wright.

Among the prolific paintings and other art in the 8 kilometer-long Rouffignac cave system in southwestern France are a number of unusual markings known as finger flutings, which are made by people dragging their hands through the soft silt that lines the cave's walls.

"No one seems to be addressing what the homeowners are going through with fouled irrigation pumps from the silt and gravel the dredgers are kicking up," they wrote.

The silt was laminated, deposited in layers.