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Example sentences for: silted

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Its riches were stolen long ago, the once-great river is a silted shadow of its former self, and Silves is now just a dusty backwater, but the glorious setting remains.
Until comparatively recently, when the area silted into a tidal flat, Faro was a commercial and fishing port open to the Atlantic.
Equally hard to believe, this inland town was once a port and coastal fortress until the sea inlet here silted up, leaving the quiet Óbidos lagoon cut off and the shoreline nearly 10 km (6 miles) away.