SILT in a Sentence

Learn SILT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SILT, such as:

1. The river will silt up in 20 years.
2. Water, for hundreds of years, had silted down into the hollow, and lay there four or five feet deep over a black cushion of mud.

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 Meanings and Examples of SILT
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silt
 v.  mud, clay, or small rocks deposited by river or lake
Classic Sentence:
1  Water, for hundreds of years, had silted down into the hollow, and lay there four or five feet deep over a black cushion of mud.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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Example Sentence:
1  The river will silt up in 20 years.