dike

Example Sentences

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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

And building the dike in Kazakhstan cut off the south part of the sea in Uzbekistan from its crucial water source.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024

A huge barrier of the makings of the dike to which the cabins had been added was rolling and tumbling forward.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston