Looking up, he watched lines of icicles forming where water sluiced through cracks in the plaster.

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After being pounded with pulp, expect to be sluiced down with hoses by the local fire brigade.

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Moreover, the bad loans sluiced overboard in past bail-outs look as if they are being replaced by a new wave.

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In May and June, heavy rains in the basin of the Yangtze river had created an enormous flow of fresh water, and this jet had sluiced the jellyfish towards Japan.

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The tide was high, and for a hundred feet away from the shore, the water appeared to be the colour of green milk, the waves having sluiced chalk from the foreshore and cliffs, which stained the sea white.

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