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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sluice.

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Examples

  • She shook him, and rainwater sluiced off his suit in runnels to the ground.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Power sluiced past his gaping jaws and coursed over his hackles.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Power sluiced past his gaping jaws and coursed over his hackles.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Rain sluiced down from the debris, pooling around her ankles.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The water sluiced over me like a gentle rain, leaving my skin slick and gleaming.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • She shook him, and rainwater sluiced off his suit in runnels to the ground.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Fascinated by the five-inch stream, sluiced out of the earth and back to the earth by the droning motor, he forgot his discourse and stood and gazed, rapt and unheeding, while his visitors drove on.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Rain sluiced down from the debris, pooling around her ankles.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Sheets of foam sluiced down the face of the massive waves.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

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