What is "silty"

Usage examples of "silty".

They looked down at the thin column of smoke from the Camp and the brown silty river below, its noticeable current heading for the broad blue expanse of Beran Sea.

He was acutely aware of the danger of swampy fens and the soft silty soil that often formed in such places, because of the bad experience he and his brother had had when they had come that way before.

The unimpressive mud-brick community sat by a shallow, silty river on the edge of the desert.

Almost immediately the silty bottom began to rise out of the supertanker channel to the shallower region of the piers, the sloping bottom there an average of thirty feet deep.

Under the hull of the USS Tampa, on the bottom of the silty bay, huddled with the assault weapons, sat Commander Kurt Lennox, his mask fogged from his heavy breathing.

Within thirty seconds the message transmission was complete, the buoy flooded and sank to the silty bottom of the bay.

The destroyer settled in the water, her lower compartments flooding as she sank to the silty bottom of the strait.

Through the warped boards of the wharf I saw the silty, butter-colored churn of the James.

Out of the silty gloom the crystal pillar appeared, glowing with the warmth of his reflected xenon lamps.

Its lantern glowed sharply on the rod of bone growing out of its skull, and wide nostrils filtered the silty water, Basker-style.

If the water flow from the surface down into the drain, it will not fail to carry dirt with it, and instead of the clear water, which alone should rise into the tiles from below, we should have a trickling flow from above, muddy with wasted manure and silty earth.

Lowering himself to his knees, he spread his hands on the silty bottom.

Sun and absence of rain had preserved the turgid flow as dust-dulled black, deep enough to hide the hump of the cobbles lying underneath, the mortal river reaching down to the silty waters of the bay.

I tossed his clothes into the silty water and gave them a quick scrubbing.

Ribbons of sunlight stretched like tapes from the broken cloud cover, sinking into the silty river.