Explore Silt through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like soil or choke. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Silt in a sentence
Related words
Silt meaning
- Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
- A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Using Silt
- The main meaning on this page is: Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. | Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport. | A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- Useful related words include: soil, choke, congest, back up.
- In the example corpus, silt often appears in combinations such as: silt and, of silt, and silt.
Context around Silt
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Silt
- In this selection, "silt" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, support, filtered, water, historical, drops and clay stand out and add context to how "silt" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 5k support silt historical park and according to silt associate director. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "silt" sits close to words such as apes, attainment and braverman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with silt
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Soils high in silt feel smooth or floury. (8 words)
Mr Waring said that this is creating a natural build-up of silt from decaying products. (16 words)
The glacial silt has left a rich but often wet valley bed, perfect for bird watching. (16 words)
Dubbed “LochNSX,” the crusty old Acura comes complete with massive damage to the passenger-side A-pillar, all of the corrosion you’d expect from sitting submerged in water for two decades, and yup, plenty of mud and silt. (39 words)
The delivery of silt and clay is a normal and common seasonal event in almost all rivers, and in fact the minerals delivered (calcium, silicon, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus) are the base of the food pyramid for fish and people. (39 words)
Right now, on the list of adventures for the Strive to Thrive campers will be a trip to Silt for a day at the Ride Equine Therapy ranch, as well as paddle boarding at Grass Valley Reservoir. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Proceeds from Silt’s annual 5K support Silt Historical Park, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
The master plan for the lake spread over 60 acres included 15 silt drops that filtered silt from water that was entering the lake.
Hi-Crush officials said the pond contained mostly water, silt, clay and sand, though it could contain trace amounts of a polyacrylamide, which is used to remove silt from the water.
As a result of the slide, silt and dirt continues to make their way downstream, clouding the waterway.
But working my shovel into the heavy silt, it immediately dawned on me that “clean up” was much easier to talk about than do, and this would probably take months to accomplish.
Drill down far enough and you'll find layers of those old microbes that were trapped under that silt, so long ago.
Dubbed “LochNSX,” the crusty old Acura comes complete with massive damage to the passenger-side A-pillar, all of the corrosion you’d expect from sitting submerged in water for two decades, and yup, plenty of mud and silt.
Engaging with community and developing a sense of belonging are essential components of student flourishing for the Emory student experience, according to SILT Associate Director of Student Organizations and Governance Dion Webb-Figueroa.
Mr Waring said that this is creating a natural build-up of silt from decaying products.
On one side the bottom of the pond is being filled with silt, and on the other side encroachment is taking place on the bank.
Right now, on the list of adventures for the Strive to Thrive campers will be a trip to Silt for a day at the Ride Equine Therapy ranch, as well as paddle boarding at Grass Valley Reservoir.
Soils high in silt feel smooth or floury.
The delivery of silt and clay is a normal and common seasonal event in almost all rivers, and in fact the minerals delivered (calcium, silicon, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus) are the base of the food pyramid for fish and people.
The funding also contributed to the installation of a silt trap near the outflow from the ski lake into Brookfoot Lake.
The glacial silt has left a rich but often wet valley bed, perfect for bird watching.
The nutrient-rich silt of Galicia's chilly Atlantic estuaries -- known as rias -- is normally fertile ground but not after extended periods of heatwaves and abnormally heavy rainfall.
A Reuters reporter visited the site on Saturday, where silt had poured through a hole in the canal's concrete wall.
Beyond that would could widen farm drains, put in silt traps, wetland planted pools and areas where the water can lie in the landscape and slow down.
Boating at Audley, which has been a huge attraction in the Royal National Park for 140 years, is being severely impacted by a build-up of silt.
Dredging the Kallai river mouth is expected to clear all the silt and debris that are hindering the flow of the river.
Common combinations with silt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- silt and 31×
- of silt 24×
- and silt 16×
- the silt 14×
- with silt 9×
- in silt 8×
- sand silt 7×
- silt from 6×
- silt sand 5×
- silt clay 4×