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

That’s the result of an $86 million dike project led by Kazakhstan, with assistance from the World Bank, completed in 2005.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

Now silently the host of Rohan moved forward into the field of Gondor, pouring in slowly but steadily, like the rising tide through breaches in a dike that men have thought secure.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Big Bend, bordering Mexico in West Texas, features volcanic dikes, dinosaur bones and stunning canyon views.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Dutch -- with their dikes, dams and vast waterworks--have long been admired for their tenacity in the face of flood risks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 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

The spatial information on dikes and vegetation usually requires good local knowledge and cooperation with the authorities.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023

Only when he drew up, breathless, at his own doorway, flung it open and stepped inside, did his defenses crumble like faulty dikes.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The decision was largely informed by alarmingly low salmon runs as a result of heavily dammed, diked and channeled streams struggling to maintain healthy flows in the face of droughts and warming summers.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

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

"And good diked land, or ma'sh as these people call it, is worth about two hundred dollars an acre, isn't it?" went on Mrs. Carter.

From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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