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

Scientists have warned that Himalayan glaciers are melting because of climate change and creating glacial lakes, often dammed by loose rock and debris, which makes them unstable and prone to bursting their banks.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024

Over the last 100 years, rivers across the Central Valley were dammed to provide irrigation for farms, blocking salmon from their natural habitats.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2024

It is dammed by a massive ridge of rubble that the glacier piled up over thousands of years.

From National Geographic • Jan. 10, 2024

Without a word, she would turn and leave me before I was through, shutting off my torrent, so that my feelings, thus dammed, raged on in my chest.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson