Get to know Spillway better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like spill or conduit.
Spillway meaning
A path designed to take away overflow safely.
Using Spillway
- The main meaning on this page is: A path designed to take away overflow safely.
- Useful related words include: spill, wasteweir, conduit.
- In the example corpus, spillway often appears in combinations such as: the spillway, spillway is, spillway gates.
Context around Spillway
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spillway
- In this selection, "spillway" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 18.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, auxiliary, service, emergency, needs, releases and leading stand out and add context to how "spillway" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an auxiliary spillway releases flow and at the spillway as water. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spillway" sits close to words such as absolve, acceptability and acetic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spillway
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A temporary, bypass spillway is in use. (7 words)
Later this summer, work will shift to the southern spillway. (10 words)
Smith and Weiss lakes are above summer levels; spillway gates operating. (11 words)
The water line at the Wrightsville Dam was about 2 feet below the spillway Thursday morning and dropping slowly, according to Eric Blatt, engineering director for the state’s dams program. (31 words)
This is because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing more than 10,000 cubic feet of water per second through the spillway at Schafer Dam. (28 words)
An inspection in 2015 identified failures along the length of the spillway and concluded the spillway needs to be replaced to ensure the integrity of the dam. (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
An inspection in 2015 identified failures along the length of the spillway and concluded the spillway needs to be replaced to ensure the integrity of the dam.
An auxiliary spillway releases flow in excess of the capacity of the service spillway.
The spillway can be gradually eroded by water flow, including cavitation or turbulence of the water flowing over the spillway, leading to its failure.
The spillway entrance arrangement forms a classic side-flow weir with each spillway containing four convert and convert steel-drum gates.
Boating one day on the Suwannee River, he came across a series of gates covering a spillway.
Soon after, Vallecito’s dam was closely inspected, revealing leaks and erosion in its spillway.
The dam is running a lot of water over the emergency spillway.
The water line at the Wrightsville Dam was about 2 feet below the spillway Thursday morning and dropping slowly, according to Eric Blatt, engineering director for the state’s dams program.
This is because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing more than 10,000 cubic feet of water per second through the spillway at Schafer Dam.
This is look at the spillway as water started to release just minutes ago.
File photo shows a relatively small volume of water being released from the Bakun HEP during a spillway gate check.
Later this summer, work will shift to the southern spillway.
Water levels are about 1 foot below the crest of the spillway.
A temporary, bypass spillway is in use.
Smith and Weiss lakes are above summer levels; spillway gates operating.
And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened a spillway to relieve pressure on New Orleans.
Burgoon also urged people to not go around the barricades as the bridge at the spillway has been deemed unsafe.
But once the capacity of the dam increased, so did the potential damage with a failure of the spillway and dam.
In one of the pictures, vegetation can be seen growing out of the concrete slabs on the side of the spillway that has partially collapsed.
Perhaps out of sight and out of mind for many New Orleanians, the spillway is having an impact in the Gulf.
Common combinations with spillway
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: