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Example sentences for: silted

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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.
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.