SILT in a Sentence

Learn SILT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for SILT, such as:
1. The river will silt up in 20 years.
2. Water, for hundreds of years, had silted down into the hollow, and lay there four or five feet deep over a black cushion of mud.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of SILT
silt
 v.  mud, clay, or small rocks deposited by river or lake
Classic Sentence:
1  Water, for hundreds of years, had silted down into the hollow, and lay there four or five feet deep over a black cushion of mud.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
Example Sentence:
1  The river will silt up in 20 years.