"sediment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is important that the water does not carry much sediment.
- It carried soil and sediment, but with much less energy than its predecessor.
- The Yellow River carries more sediment than any other in the world.
- The river carries sediment which makes the downriver land fertile.
- Rivers on that side therefore carry sediment away from the rift valley.
- The rivers flowing at high speed in the mountains carry sediments.
- That created rain runoff carrying sediment to the canal network.
- Also, water carried over land by the storm surge carries sediment away as it flows back out to sea.
- This secondary flow carries sediment from the outside of the bend to the inside making the river more meandering.
- The river works as a density current, because it carries sediments along the sea floor and has a higher salinity than the surrounding water.
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