dike

To suggest the Dutch are clueless about combat is like suggesting they don’t know how to build a dike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

“And when you were up on the rock, then every crystal, crack, and ripple was endowed with indissoluble, life-saving importance, each dike and chickenhead inalienably itself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

The organization will run out of money for dike maintenance in Bentiu by February, after months of some of the most severe flooding in years.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

Known as the Kokaral Dam, the dike cuts across a narrow stretch of the sea, conserving and gathering water from the Syr Darya River.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

It seemed now as sudden as the bursting of a flood that had long been held back by a dike.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The new study examined dikes, which are narrow fractures that could theoretically serve as channels for ocean water moving upward through the ice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

But Spanish invaders obliterated the Aztec capital in the 16th century, smashing dikes and other Indigenous hydraulic works.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Scholz landed in the morning in the town of Verden in Lower Saxony where dikes along rivers were soaked with water and close to bursting in some parts of the state.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

These ecosystems, as Kavanaugh pointed out, are frequently separated from larger bodies of water by “man-made dikes or barriers” as well as “natural river berms, beach dunes, or the like.”

From Slate ● May 25, 2023

There were dikes leading from the road, but they didn’t look too firm.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

Lands and waters that today are paved, dammed, diked, dredged, filled and industrialized beyond recognition are increasingly bereft of salmon, game, roots, berries, plants and medicines central to Native cultures.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

An estimated 40% of the original wetland has been diked, drained or destroyed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

For the past 150 years, the marshy area where salmon bred and fed has been dried, diked and dammed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2014

We have probably diked off too much of the river's active flood plain; in many cases close to 90 percent of the historic flood plain.

From Scientific American ● May 13, 2011

At the University of Virginia, one who is dressed with more than ordinary elegance is said to be diked out.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

The Corps of Engineers has to approve the permits because work will be done near the Columbia River diking system and in and around wetlands, Bennett added.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

Oystermen started diking tidelands and cultivating the precious bivalves like a crop — and for a while, they prospered.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

"We need to repair 75 years of diking and draining, but that takes time," he said.

From US News ● Jul. 1, 2016

The Souris was ripping along at 6,610 cfs at Broadway Bridge, a higher flow than what much of the diking in the city was believed able to contain.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2016

Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann