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Silts is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Silts in a sentence

Related words

Silts | Silt | Silted | Silting | Siltstone

Silts meaning

plural of silt

Using Silts

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

Context around Silts

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

dust 1× soft 1× sands 1× coastal 1× alluvial 1×

Sentence patterns with Silts

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

bedrock soft silts and clay 1× by alluvial silts 1× fine sands silts and muds 1× include both silts and clay 1× of coastal silts and muds 1× sandstones and silts 1× that still silts up the 1× the dust silts up on 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

but neither removes 1× deposition of levees 1× for similar reasons 1× how the dust 1× it presumed the 1× the ruins of 1×

Common sentence endings:

silts and muds 2× by alluvial silts 1× in this river 1× o mara said 1× of indian commerce 1× sandstones and silts 1×

Words around Silts

Just before it in the word index:

siltronic 3 silting 15 silted 15 siltation 9 silt 150 silsilah 2

Just after it in the word index:

siltstone 3 silty 10 silumbu 2 silungwe 7 silures 2 silurian 31

Similar in corpus frequency:

aakash 12 aanholt 12 aardwolf 12 abadan 12 abati 12 abcc 12

Corpus analysis for Silts

  • In this selection, "silts" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, dust, soft and sands stand out and add context to how "silts" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include bedrock soft silts and clay and by alluvial silts. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "silts" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with silts

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

How the dust silts up on our shelves, after a year’s neglect. (13 words)

The ruins of the Lycian and Roman town are mostly covered by alluvial silts. (14 words)

The silts from the ocean come through the canal and are deposited in this river. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

The small amount of geophysics done, and occasional building-related exposures, combined with small exposures in the banks of the River Don, suggest that it is actually sited on an inlier of Devonian "Old Red" sandstones and silts. (38 words)

Deposition of levees is a natural consequence of the flooding of meandering rivers which carry high proportions of suspended sediment in the form of fine sands, silts, and muds. (29 words)

It presumed the tunnel would be located entirely in solid bedrock, yet Enbridge’s plan also includes digging through poor bedrock, soft silts and clay, O’Mara said. (28 words)

Example sentences (9)

How the dust silts up on our shelves, after a year’s neglect.

It presumed the tunnel would be located entirely in solid bedrock, yet Enbridge’s plan also includes digging through poor bedrock, soft silts and clay, O’Mara said.

But neither removes the desert of sand that still silts up the wheels of Indian commerce.

The silts from the ocean come through the canal and are deposited in this river.

Deposition of levees is a natural consequence of the flooding of meandering rivers which carry high proportions of suspended sediment in the form of fine sands, silts, and muds.

For similar reasons, they are also common in tidal creeks, where tides bring in large amounts of coastal silts and muds.

There is, however, some overlap in particle size and other physical properties, and many naturally occurring deposits include both silts and clay.

The ruins of the Lycian and Roman town are mostly covered by alluvial silts.

The small amount of geophysics done, and occasional building-related exposures, combined with small exposures in the banks of the River Don, suggest that it is actually sited on an inlier of Devonian "Old Red" sandstones and silts.

Common combinations with silts

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "silts" in a sentence?
An example: "How the dust silts up on our shelves, after a year’s neglect." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "silts" from authentic English texts.
What does "silts" mean?
Silts means: plural of silt
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Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "silts", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.