swale
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The land here was laser-leveled, and workers carved a swale to give juvenile salmon a way in and out when the plain floods.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
“It took me two months end to end,” Bautista said, including gutters, hardscape, edging and building a trench to the swale in the backyard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
Bob MacIntyre sends his second at 18 down the swale to the left of the green, the one which briefly threatened to undo Sandy Lyle in 1985.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2021
But a heartbeat later, aided by the wind, his ball keeps rolling, slides off the back of the green and down into a swale.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2021
A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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