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Example sentences for "sluit"

Lexicographically close words:
sluice; sluiced; sluices; sluiceway; sluicing; slum; slumber; slumbered; slumberer; slumbereth
  1. We did not get into camp until after dark, and the baggage was later still, as there was a nasty drift over a sluit at the entrance to the camping ground; fires had to be lighted to show the wagons the way across.

  2. At the point where the drift cuts the sluit the nullah is broad and extensive.

  3. Thus when the Boers were in position, lining the sluit and the embankment, the position became like the base of a horse's foot.

  4. Mightn't he be lying dead in a sluit where you and Koos Bester left him last week?

  5. Max and Oom Schulpad wended back to Namies, and, with a couple of spades which they took out of the shop, soon dug a grave in the sluit at the back of the little kopje.

  6. This lower town stands at the upper end of an extensive level opening, surrounded on three sides by hills, open to the south, where a small sluit drains the land upon which the lower town stands.

  7. Not far from them there are some dried-up springs, the water of which was conveyed away by a sluit passing into the Moretsane.

  8. My driver happened to capsize it into a sluit two days before, and, to complete my misfortune, I lost four of my best trek oxen in the river by sinking in the mud.

  9. My servant had adroitly dodged into a sluit which hid him from view, and I knew that he could work his way out far better than I could.

  10. Every kopje was a natural fortress, every sluit a perfect line of trenches, and every donga a nursery for death.

  11. You knocked him into a sluit and the mud splashed up over you.

  12. As it happened, however, the other party concerned never stirred further in the business, probably because he was too drunk to remember who had knocked him into the sluit or whether he had gravitated thither by accident.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sluit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.