dam
Example Sentences
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Late one night in October 2023, part of the shelf of rocks and ice that dammed the lake in northeast India collapsed.
It includes measures such as banning activities in certain areas where species could be harmed or killed, like dam construction.
From BBC
I’m about to dive in, shatter the perfect mirror beneath me, when my phone chimes his chime, and the relaxed confidence I was enjoying rushes out of me, like water rushing from a broken dam.
From Literature
He traveled around New England and wrote about it, looking for nature at its most untamed, but sometimes finding mills and factories and a river dammed.
From Los Angeles Times
The Guards control big companies that have been given public contracts for dams, highways and metro lines, hospitals, swanky hotels and coffee shops, according to public disclosures by Revolutionary Guard-controlled companies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
