How to Use "sluice" with Example Sentences

1. Pouring from or as if from a sluice : the sluicing rain .
2. Irrigate with water from a sluice .
3. Experts believe that this sediment will build up behind the dam , with only an unproven system of sluice gates to release it .
4. Running process : after the motor is started up and runs , the sluice gate begins to descend .
5. Yu and his colleagues ar e dispatched to sluice gates during times of drought when the conservancy has to impose a potentially life-determining judgment on supplies .