How to Use alluvial in a Sentence

alluvial

adjective
  • Soil types here include rocky and alluvial soils from ancient riverbeds.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 1 May 2026
  • In the wild, pawpaws are often found growing in the rich, alluvial soil along rivers, creeks, and streams.
    — Andrew Moore, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Lulo is an alluvial mine, which means the stones are recovered from a river bed.
    — Nqobile Ntshangase, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2022
  • Much of the rich alluvial plains along the coast has been gobbled up by three decades of urbanization.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
  • Rather, builders depend on the sharp, angular grains found in riverbeds and alluvial deposits.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • The sections ranged from steep, rocky headlands and bluffs to wide, low-lying alluvial valleys where rivers flow into the bay.
    — Robin Meadows, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The boat is as dry and yellow as a crumpet, but the paint elsewhere runs in long tendrils, or swirls into the swampy alluvial ground.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The park is characterized by gum oak and cypress trees in alluvial soils built up frequent flooding.
    — Discover Staff, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2016
  • Tucker planted tobacco in the rich alluvial soil and thus began to make his fortune.
    — USA Today, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Ukiah itself sits on an alluvial aquifer, as does much of the Central Valley.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Without water in the substrate, alluvial soil shrinks and subsides, leading to a sinking city.
    — Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
  • The island is the third-largest in China and the largest alluvial island globally.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The diamond came from India’s alluvial mines thousands of years ago, sifted from the sand.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
  • In alluvial diamond mining, stones are recovered from gravel and sand found on riverbeds.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 27 July 2022
  • Grapes are grown along the Russian River in classic gravel and alluvial soil.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The seabed is covered with some 80 meters of fine silt deposited by the alluvial flow from various rivers.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • With a staff of 400, Lulo is an alluvial mine where stones are recovered from the river bed.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
  • The wave would stay the same, more or less, unchanging, identical, regardless of tidal phase, the alluvial shift of sand, or swell forecast.
    — Alex Wilson, Outside Online, 7 May 2018
  • River sand, pump sand, batture sand and spillway sand are all fertile, alluvial soils with a slightly alkaline pH.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 25 May 2018
  • There’s also Chardonnay found in the eastern part of Beaujolais, where the soils are more alluvial than granite.
    — Jill Barth, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Closer inspection of the territory reveals alluvial enclaves near the river, as well as pockets of clay and loam.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The terroir was basked in sunlight while regional soils form a unique combination of alluvial and marine sediments.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The carbonado stones are found in alluvial, sedimentary deposits, close to or on the Earth’s surface.
    — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The communities that have traditionally relied on aflaj include towns in the mountains and in the sloping alluvial plains.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The encampment eventually became buried more and more deeply as alluvial sands were washed up over the banks by occasional floods of the adjacent river.
    — courant.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • There, buffalo roamed free within the ancient ruins of Magna Graecia in the low, alluvial plains just outside of Naples.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Cholla gardens and brittlebush rise from pale alluvial slopes, and a seasonal stream leads to one of California’s few native fan palm oases.
    — Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Stands of honey mesquite, towering cottonwoods and willows anchored alluvial lands made fertile by muddy deposits left behind by the river.
    — AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Miners discovered the 170-carat pink stone at the open pit Lulo alluvial mine in the northeast region of the southern African nation.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • Bangladesh has far and away the highest population density of any sizable nation — around 3,000 people per square mile pack the alluvial plain that spans most of the country.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2017

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