tideway

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tideway
Noun
  • Campos Mello broke a series of stories about businessmen who were financing a torrent of WhatsApp messages that denigrated Haddad.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Hub’s new gig unleashes a torrent of comically exaggerated gore and populates his world with even more colorful characters.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This option returns the pond to its full former glory including sluice gate repair, dredging the full pond area and recreational enhancements to include 5.7 acres of open water and two fishing platforms.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In 2014, Kyrgyz and Tajik conscripts exchanged fire over a strategic sluice in Ak-Sai.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2016
Noun
  • The new spillway would have gates lower than the dam’s existing spillway, allowing water to be released while the reservoir is at lower levels, such as before a large storm passes through.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Improving the spillway, modifying the shape and elevation of the dam embankment, installing new flood early warning systems and relocating a wastewater line are on the project's to-do list.
    Asher Price, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Wilson’s New Freedom would open the sluiceways of competition by slashing tariffs, strengthening anti-trust laws and increasing access to credit.
    Richard Norton Smith, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The town has opened the floodgate to the dam draining the pond behind it and allowing Roaring Brook to flow freely downstream through a sluiceway.
    Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 12 Apr. 2018
Noun
  • As the value and worth of the collection have come to attention, the museum realizes its liability — it is located within the Jones Falls floodway.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Blue Sky Surveying & Mapping Corp. failed to show a federal floodway overlapping the new city council chamber.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Restaurants along the River Walk will offer dining packages with premium seating during the river parade.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Roman bridgehead forts were typically built near key river crossings to control trade and secure borders, archaeologists said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Tideway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tideway. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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