polder
Example Sentences
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This approach is so ingrained in Dutch politics, there is a name for it: the ‘‘poldermodel,” with polder meaning “land reclaimed from the sea.”
From New York Times • May 28, 2020
Out in West Flanders, where windmills and church towers dot the countryside, the flat polder land runs through the battlefields of World War One.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2018
Goodbred and a research team found that land inside the polder was more than a meter below the average high tide in the area.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 1, 2018
Homes in these polders, he notes, tend to be on land that sits half a meter or more above the polder basins, so would be protected from the influx.
From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2014
Theo moves into the Roos house, just as Vincent had, and he takes long walks into the polder, just as he and Vincent had two years earlier when they walked to the windmill.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
