silts in a sentence

Examples

1. Huge mounds of silt are next to rows of crops.
2. Flooding leaves behind silt that undermines the productivity of farmland.
3. They also warn pollution and silt will back up behind the dam.
4. Officials have not plugged leaks nor cleared silt-clogging mountain reservoirs.
5. During winter rains, streams deposited silt and sand atop the asphalt.
6. The helicopter is mired in silt several meters ( yards ) deep.
7. Sand and silt has partly buried some of the ships.
8. But the silt prevented them from getting a good picture.
9. The soil composition typically contains sand, silt and clay.
10. Over time the strait began to collect silt and earth.