On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Silting. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Silting meaning
the disturbing of fine sediment on the floor of an underwater cave, reducing visibility
Using Silting
- The main meaning on this page is: the disturbing of fine sediment on the floor of an underwater cave, reducing visibility
- In the example corpus, silting often appears in combinations such as: silting up.
Context around Silting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Silting
- In this selection, "silting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, significant, continual, century, gutter, work and major stand out and add context to how "silting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 20th century silting had resulted and against continual silting never recovered. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "silting" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with silting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Seleucia Pieria, which was already fighting a losing battle against continual silting, never recovered. (14 words)
Breakwaters on either side of the Seaway prevent longshore drift and the bar from silting up. (16 words)
Despite the district administration raising the issue with the irrigation department in 2019, the de-silting did not occur. (19 words)
Of late, there has been growing concerns from villagers in rural Beitbridge over the state of affairs in water bodies and there are growing calls for Government and development partners to assist them in de-silting major water bodies. (39 words)
The area is far enough from Belize City to avoid significant silting from the Belize River, even though the project will require significant dredging to reclaim an adequate land mass. (30 words)
De-silting of the drain, which customarily takes place before monsoon, is next to impossible here for this very reason,” shared an official on the condition of anonymity. (28 words)
Can we say the same of the river de-silting, gutter clearing, and other landscaping operations that we observe on a regular basis? (23 words)
Example sentences (14)
Bizarrely there are also 22 places which used to be islands but aren’t any more due to things like silting of harbours.
Despite the district administration raising the issue with the irrigation department in 2019, the de-silting did not occur.
SDO (Rtd.) Manjeet Singh said that the prolonged delay in de-silting could turn the check dams into a nightmare for the surrounding communities.
De-silting of the drain, which customarily takes place before monsoon, is next to impossible here for this very reason,” shared an official on the condition of anonymity.
Can we say the same of the river de-silting, gutter clearing, and other landscaping operations that we observe on a regular basis?
De-silting work on an abandoned stretch of the Wey and Arun navigation near the Surrey-West Sussex border.
Of late, there has been growing concerns from villagers in rural Beitbridge over the state of affairs in water bodies and there are growing calls for Government and development partners to assist them in de-silting major water bodies.
The area is far enough from Belize City to avoid significant silting from the Belize River, even though the project will require significant dredging to reclaim an adequate land mass.
Breakwaters on either side of the Seaway prevent longshore drift and the bar from silting up.
Furthermore, in the 15th century, access to the sea became more and more difficult, as the port was silting up and was cut off from the sea.
Originally an island, Peniche became one with the mainland due to the silting up of the shallow channel that divided it from the rest of the country.
Seleucia Pieria, which was already fighting a losing battle against continual silting, never recovered.
Thereafter, canals were dug, bends were straightened and groynes were built to prevent the river's channels from migrating or silting up.
Trade was boosted for a while but by the 20th century silting had resulted in the river only being navigable as far as Rome itself.
Common combinations with silting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- silting up 4×