swale
Example Sentences
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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
During this year’s record rainfall, Bautista was delighted to see that the swale he installed handled the overflow water “like a champ.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
The site chosen was a fertile stretch of glacier-carved swale between Queen Anne Hill and regraded Denny Hill.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022
But then he makes an unforced error, pulling his approach down the swale to the left of the green.
From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2022
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
