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sluice down

v. pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice]

Usage examples of "sluice down".

Uchitel had sent him in with a small support party to try to bring the sluice down on the sleeping Americans.

On the bank, Jorlan cocked his head to the side and watched the droplets of water sluice down her pointy breasts.

There wouldn't be time for anything but a quick sluice down, either.

The water was hot and Kris let it sluice down her body, soaping herself well, luxuriating in the warmth until Zainal tapped on the shower door.

In the center of their little circle, the three globe-frogs had abandoned their cases and stood with their hands out, letting the water sluice down their bodies.

Knight had chosen, she watched the rain sluice down the windows and wondered, could Madeline arrive in time to stop the wedding?

As she sat there, at a small desk in one corner of the room, with the book opened on the desk (not the big desk where Uncle Jason sat to write the chronicles), listening to the wind running in the eaves, watching the rain sluice down the windows from which Thatcher had drawn the drapes with the passing of the morning sun, she moved into another place, or seemed to move into another place, although the room remained.

He would stand on tiptoe to raise the pump-handle, raise it and lower it with all his strength while the idol choked hoarsely, until there came a catch in its throat as the handle met some mysterious resistance, and he must pull himself almost off his feet to draw it down, and again, and then with a magical sudden ease and release the water would sluice down the pump's broad tongue and splash in a continuous smooth clear sheet onto the worn stones.