How do you use Alluvium in a sentence? See 4 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like sediment or deposit, plus the exact meaning.
Alluvium in a sentence
Alluvium meaning
soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
Using Alluvium
- The main meaning on this page is: soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
- Useful related words include: alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvion, sediment.
Context around Alluvium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alluvium
- In this selection, "alluvium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, uninterrupted, rich, formed and melt stand out and add context to how "alluvium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accumulation of alluvium and of rich alluvium which is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alluvium" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alluvium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Similarly Romney Marsh and Dungeness have been formed by accumulation of alluvium. (12 words)
These are small lakes formed when large ice blocks that are trapped in alluvium melt and produce water-filled depressions. (20 words)
The Indo-Gangetic belt is the world's most extensive expanse of uninterrupted alluvium formed by the deposition of silt by the numerous rivers. (24 words)
Thus, along much of the Brent's present-day course, one can make out the water meadows of rich alluvium, which is augmented by frequent floods. (26 words)
The Indo-Gangetic belt is the world's most extensive expanse of uninterrupted alluvium formed by the deposition of silt by the numerous rivers. (24 words)
These are small lakes formed when large ice blocks that are trapped in alluvium melt and produce water-filled depressions. (20 words)
Example sentences (4)
Similarly Romney Marsh and Dungeness have been formed by accumulation of alluvium.
The Indo-Gangetic belt is the world's most extensive expanse of uninterrupted alluvium formed by the deposition of silt by the numerous rivers.
These are small lakes formed when large ice blocks that are trapped in alluvium melt and produce water-filled depressions.
Thus, along much of the Brent's present-day course, one can make out the water meadows of rich alluvium, which is augmented by frequent floods.