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Sluicing | Sluices | Sluiced

Sluicing meaning

present participle and gerund of sluice

Using Sluicing

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of sluice

Context around Sluicing

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Sentence patterns with Sluicing

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

hope or sluicing the boggy 1× ore before sluicing it away 1× sluicing for gold 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

be it cooking 1× sluicing for gold 1× small scale miners 1×

Common sentence endings:

of the territories 1× paid the least 1× sluicing it away 1×

Words around Sluicing

Just before it in the word index:

sluices 8 sluiced 7 sluice 20 slugworth 2 slugs 109 slughorn 8

Just after it in the word index:

sluis 2 sluka 6 slum 169 sluman 2 slumber 89 slumberdown 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaaand 5 aaah 5 aacl 5 aak 5 aapke 5 aarav 5

Corpus analysis for Sluicing

  • In this selection, "sluicing" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Recognizable usage signals include hope or sluicing the boggy and ore before sluicing it away. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "sluicing" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with sluicing

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

Sluicing for gold, photo by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories. (15 words)

Small-scale miners have long used mercury - easy to buy at around $10 for a thumb-sized vial - to extract flecks of gold from ore, before sluicing it away. (29 words)

Be it cooking toxic pans of mercury, scouring mud pools for cheap slivers of hope or sluicing the boggy soil – women do the hardest jobs and get paid the least. (30 words)

Longer example sentences

Be it cooking toxic pans of mercury, scouring mud pools for cheap slivers of hope or sluicing the boggy soil – women do the hardest jobs and get paid the least. (30 words)

Small-scale miners have long used mercury - easy to buy at around $10 for a thumb-sized vial - to extract flecks of gold from ore, before sluicing it away. (29 words)

Sluicing for gold, photo by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories. (15 words)

Example sentences (3)

Be it cooking toxic pans of mercury, scouring mud pools for cheap slivers of hope or sluicing the boggy soil – women do the hardest jobs and get paid the least.

Small-scale miners have long used mercury - easy to buy at around $10 for a thumb-sized vial - to extract flecks of gold from ore, before sluicing it away.

Sluicing for gold, photo by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "sluicing" in a sentence?
An example: "Be it cooking toxic pans of mercury, scouring mud pools for cheap slivers of hope or sluicing the boggy soil – women do the hardest jobs and get paid the least." This page contains 3 example sentences with the word "sluicing" from authentic English texts.
What does "sluicing" mean?
Sluicing means: present participle and gerund of sluice
How many example sentences with "sluicing" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 3 example sentences with "sluicing", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.