dammed
Example Sentences
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These lakes are prone to failing because they are precariously dammed by walls made of frozen earth, rocks and ice created by the movement of a glacier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
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 • Mar. 30, 2026
Some Alaskans are evacuating their homes as meltwater escapes a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier - raising fears of record-breaking flooding in the US state's capital city.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025
It is dammed by a massive ridge of rubble that the glacier piled up over thousands of years.
From National Geographic • Jan. 10, 2024
They must have grown on top of a hill before the river was dammed.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
