SILT in a Sentence

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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.