How to Use alluvial in a Sentence

alluvial

adjective
Definition of alluvialnext
  • 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
  • Much of the rich alluvial plains along the coast has been gobbled up by three decades of urbanization.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
  • 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 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
  • Lulo is an alluvial mine, which means the stones are recovered from a river bed.
    — Nqobile Ntshangase, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2022
  • Ukiah itself sits on an alluvial aquifer, as does much of the Central Valley.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Grapes are grown along the Russian River in classic gravel and alluvial soil.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The diamond came from India’s alluvial mines thousands of years ago, sifted from the sand.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Without water in the substrate, alluvial soil shrinks and subsides, leading to a sinking city.
    — Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
  • 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
  • Further, the loose alluvial topsoil in the Indo-Gangetic plains is prone to get displaced by winds and vehicles, increasing the level of PM10 in the air across the region.
    — Ishan Kukreti, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Argentina’s malbec offers fine value red wine across the price range, from juicy crowd-pleasers to profound expressions of terroir in the nooks and crannies of the alluvial fans of the Uco Valley.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • Residents of La Toma have long practiced both alluvial mining — panning in the Ovejas for gold washed down from the hills — and digging for ore in tunnels cut deep into dirt and rock.
    — Patrick J. McDonnellforeign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 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
  • Today, the rat exists in three isolated populations, one of the largest of which clings to existence on 5,000 acres of alluvial flood plains on the southern flanks of the San Bernardino Mountains.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The carbonado stones are found in alluvial, sedimentary deposits, close to or on the Earth’s surface.
    — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Gone—submerged far below and in many instances torn apart—were the wing dams, the telltale islands beloved by John and used for navigation by tug pilots, and the lowland farms cashing in on the rich alluvial plains.
    — W. Hodding Carter, Outside Online, 29 June 2011
  • The more moderate climate of the Northwest, where apples grow in alluvial and sandy soils, produces apples with a more neutral pH and lower acidity that tend to be softer on the palate.
    — Craig Cavallo, CNT, 1 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • In alluvial diamond mining, stones are recovered from gravel and sand found on riverbeds.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 27 July 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
  • Khasi men and women sit by roadsides with ball-peen hammers reducing boulders to pebbles the size of peas that will descend to the plains not by stream but by lorry, there to feed an infrastructure boom on the alluvial plains of Bangladesh.
    — The Economist, 27 June 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
  • Montana, Idaho, and Washington are home to some of the tallest peaks on the continent, scattered across remote wildernesses, rainforests, alluvial plains, and a matrix of lake and river systems.
    — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
  • The terroir was basked in sunlight while regional soils form a unique combination of alluvial and marine sediments.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021

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