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Silted | Silt | Silting | Silts

Silted meaning

simple past and past participle of silt

Using Silted

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of silt
  • In the example corpus, silted often appears in combinations such as: silted up, the silted, and silted.

Context around Silted

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

eventually 1× highly 1× harbour 1× soon 1× harbors 1× now 1× heavily 1×

Often after:

flood 1× creek 1× alau 1× mpira 1× facility 1×

Sentence patterns with Silted

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and the silted alau dam 1× bed soon silted up providing 1× both now silted up the 1× cities harbors silted up smyrna 1× clogged and silted up heavily 1× harbour has silted up 1× is heavily silted and is 1× of the silted up branch 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a video of 1× after the harbour 1× between 1677 and 1× bosomase wr jan 1× miletus and later 1× of the two 1×

Common sentence endings:

at several places 1× cham in cambodia 1× has silted up 1× in its catchment 1× of mandi district 1× of new land 1×

Words around Silted

Just before it in the word index:

siltation 9 silt 150 silsilah 2 silseth 6 silsden 17 silsby 3

Just after it in the word index:

silting 15 siltronic 3 silts 9 siltstone 3 silty 10 silumbu 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 19 abbv 19 abdalla 19 abdirahman 19 abdulmalik 19 abhimanyu 19

Corpus analysis for Silted

  • In this selection, "silted" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, eventually, highly, harbour, flood, creek and alau stand out and add context to how "silted" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and the silted alau dam and bed soon silted up providing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "silted" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with silted

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The entrance to the harbour has silted up. (8 words)

On the opposite side, the drain is clogged and silted up heavily at several places. (15 words)

The theatre dominates the view down Harbour Street, which leads to the silted-up harbour. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Bosomase (WR), Jan 25, GNA - The Western Regional Office of the Ghana WaterCompany has commenced a four-day dredging exercise at the Bosomase raw water intake point to open up the silted facility due to incessant illegal mining along the Pra River. (42 words)

A video of the July 9 incident of flooding had gone viral recently, showing uprooted trees and silted flood water swallowing everything in its path as it cut through Thunag market, which is located in Seraj constituency of Mandi district. (40 words)

The branch of the Meuse leading directly to the sea eventually silted up, (and now forms the Oude Maasje stream), but in 1904 the canalised Bergse Maas was dug to take over the functions of the silted-up branch. (39 words)

Example sentences (15)

The branch of the Meuse leading directly to the sea eventually silted up, (and now forms the Oude Maasje stream), but in 1904 the canalised Bergse Maas was dug to take over the functions of the silted-up branch.

A video of the July 9 incident of flooding had gone viral recently, showing uprooted trees and silted flood water swallowing everything in its path as it cut through Thunag market, which is located in Seraj constituency of Mandi district.

On the opposite side, the drain is clogged and silted up heavily at several places.

The silted creek bed is haven to weeds, while bramble and lantana thrive on the banks.

Zulum alongside the World Bank delegation, inspected the flood-damaged Fori Bridge and the silted Alau Dam to assess the scale of destruction.

The race for groundwater is underway in Ntcheu and Balaka, where thousands endured dry taps when the highly silted Mpira Dam run dry due to drought and massive deforestation in its catchment.

Bosomase (WR), Jan 25, GNA - The Western Regional Office of the Ghana WaterCompany has commenced a four-day dredging exercise at the Bosomase raw water intake point to open up the silted facility due to incessant illegal mining along the Pra River.

After the harbour silted up, Bacharach fell into a slumber from which it only awoke in the course of the Rheinromantik.

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Between 1677 and 1678, Sir John Moulton cut a new channel at "Vikings Creek" on the Horsey Levels to remove a large meander ; the old river bed soon silted up, providing convert of new land.

Miletus and later Ephesus were situated at the sea end of the other great trade route across Anatolia; they competed for a time successfully with Smyrna; but after both cities' harbors silted up, Smyrna was without a rival.

Of the two ports of Selinus, which are both now silted up, the West Port on the River Selinus-Modione was the main one.

The entrance to the harbour has silted up.

The harbour on the south side has silted over, but the harbour on the north side (see Tyre harbor photo the right) is still in use.

The river is heavily silted and is navigable by seagoing craft of shallow draft as far as Kompong Cham in Cambodia.

The theatre dominates the view down Harbour Street, which leads to the silted-up harbour.

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Common combinations with silted

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "silted" in a sentence?
An example: "The branch of the Meuse leading directly to the sea eventually silted up, (and now forms the Oude Maasje stream), but in 1904 the canalised Bergse Maas was dug to take over the functions of the silted-up branch." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "silted" from authentic English texts.
What does "silted" mean?
Silted means: simple past and past participle of silt
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