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silty

[ UK /sˈɪlti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. full of silt
    silty soil

How To Use silty In A Sentence

  • The Eocene London Clay is a succession of marine silty clays, clayey and sandy silts, and subordinate sands reaching a thickness of over 165 m on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK.
  • This can be very important since some fish will inhabit silty area in preference to hard bottoms.
  • Solemn straight hair, eyes like silty ocean water. The Bird House
  • The freezing and thawing action on clay, silty clay, and silty clay loam soils tilled in the fall or winter to produce stale seedbeds usually have excellent seedbeds for early no-till spring planting.
  • One intact wreck is of a Firefly aircraft lost in 1956 after a mid-air collision and found recently in silty water.
  • The sediments comprise silts, sand, gravel and, often lenticular, silty clay, comparable with similar sediments in the Petrockstowc basin, where the bulk of the deposits are Eocene.
  • A hatchway between leads back into the forecastle, a tight and very silty space should you feel inclined to explore.
  • He heard waves pounding in his ears, the soft gurgle beneath the waves, the silty sound of sand being moved within hidden currents.
  • I climbed over massive flat pavements of grey silty sandstone, making the whole cliffside seem like the world's largest amphitheatre.
  • The mood lightened, but the word “blackmail” hung in the air, dark and silty. The Bird House
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