What is "sluiced"

Usage examples of "sluiced".

Long runnels of mushed ashes meandered away from their bases, sluiced out by the rain.

All the rich black loam built up over millennia as the rainforests regenerated themselves upon the decayed trunks of timelost past generations was sluiced away within two days by the unnatural rain.

It was difficult for Jude to grasp the notion of prayer as a solid thing—a kind of matter to be gathered, analyzed, and sluiced away—but she knew her incomprehension was a consequence of living in a world out of love with transformation.

But now, after the extraordinary night she'd had with Gentle, she found herself wondering how these bright streets might be made to experience the miracles of the previous midnight: sluiced of vehicles by an almighty rain, then softened in the blaze of sun, so that solid matter flowed like warm treacle and a city divided into public places and private, into wealthy ghettoes and gutters, became a continuum.

Some, like the Pivot Tower and the chamber of sluiced prayers beneath it, were terrifying.

Had the waters sluiced them away, along with the invocations and entreaties that had dropped into that same darkness from beneath the Pivot Tower?

Every time cold seawater sluiced around his feet, he bailed while the hounds whimpered.

He'd stripped down to almost nothing and now sluiced water over his bare chest and arms, washing away blood.

Blood sluiced down along the sword's fuller groove, splattering against the weapon's protective basket.

Her maids sluiced the blood off her face, scrubbed the dirt from her back, washed her hair and brushed it out until it sprang back in thick auburn curls.