"sediment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This contaminates water, making it undrinkable, and sediment quickly fills the lake.
- Ironically, they also increase the flood risk because when flows are low, sediment fills in the riverbed.
- Endocasts are formed when sediments fill the empty skull, after which the skull is destroyed.
- Because subsidence occurred faster than sediment could fill it, the Gulf of Mexico expanded and deepened.
- The result is often a very large estuary at the mouth of a relatively insignificant river (or else sediments would quickly fill the ria).
- The sediment of his sin nearly filled the jug.
- At the same time, sediment filled the lakes behind the dams.
- Since impact, sediment filled part of the crater, giving it its present triangular shape.
- At some later date, undisturbed sediments, or glacial till may fill the collapse zone.
- When an animal dies and the soft tissues decay, sediments fill the orifices of the bones including the brain case inside the skull.
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