How to Use sediment in a Sentence

sediment

noun
  • There was a layer of sediment in the bottom of the tank.
  • Crude oil seeps from the sediment.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The tides bring in huge amounts of sediment along with fish, and seeds of plants.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • But large storms wash more sediment down creeks and rivers and into the ocean.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Then, a flash flood buried the bodies in sediment.
    — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In the end, the flow of water and sediment is a zero-sum game.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The sediment didn’t look like random dirt.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The debris fragments that are left over are sent to a sediment tank.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • Fish flies hatch from larvae that burrow in the lake sediment for two or three years.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023
  • Fine sediment mixed with water can also be a red flag.
    — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The series were mostly based on lake sediments and ice cores.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Oil rushed through the sediment and rock and blackened the water.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Dams hold back sediment that would normally flow to the coast.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Drinking this sediment along with the wine can be bitter.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Soon after these structures were built, they were filled with sediment.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • These grains record how rocks and sediments moved across Britain over millions of years.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Each piece carries the sediment of its own story.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • The amoebae are more likely to live in sediment at the bottom of lakes, ponds and rivers.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • The rock and sediments that make up the world's continental shelves are not dry.
    — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • Over time, a few ships were buried under the sediment while others floated away.
    — Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The amoebae are more likely to live in sediment at the bottom of lakes, ponds, and rivers.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Hektoria rests on an ice plain, where sliding ice glides over flat sediment on the seabed.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • And when companies take sand from rivers, less sediment flows down to coastlines that need it.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Swish until the loose sediment washes away, until heavy black sand is all that’s left.
    — John Archibald, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
  • Wake boats have been known to disturb sediment at the bottom of lakes, which can disrupt plant life.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Dead skeletons of the elkhorn corals were covered in algae, dust and sediment.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But farther out there are deep canyons that could hold unreachable sediments.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In human brains and lungs; in breast milk and semen; in alpine snow and deep-sea sediment; in corn plants and beer.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The way to figure [that] out was to do single-cell genomics that hadn’t yet been done in sediments.
    — Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The remnants of their prey help provide nutrients for sea beds and sediment on the ocean floor.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023

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