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Meanings of dam up in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dam"
Examples for "dam"
1
Sustainable dam management therefore has a key role in achieving ecological targets.
2
Two days later the signal was given and the dam was destroyed.
3
The dam will provide drinking water and hydroelectric power for the region.
4
Desa let his parents' house to seasonal laborers working on the dam.
5
Grant chose a seat that allowed a good view of the dam.
Usage of dam up in English
1
It was like watching someone try to dam up a raging river.
2
Not only life's tragic elements diminish and dam up its vital energies.
3
There's carp and bream under the old mill- dam up in Norman's Woods.
4
The silent presence of the ark is enough to dam up the stream.
5
Yet he could not dam up the river of hormones raging within him.
6
But it was as easy as to dam up the Falls at Niagara.
7
There was no way to dam up the over-spilling monstrous flood of life.
8
Do not think to dam up the red current of his life-hemay die.
9
She could dam up the wellspring of her impulses, walk steadfast along the accustomed ways.
10
They have to be trapped or else they dam up streams and overflow good land.
11
You can't dam up the tributaries of the heart.
12
If you dam up a stream at one place, it will simply overflow higher up.
13
If you dam up this strong current, it may find other outlets, possibly less desirable.
14
He was not likely to forget; but you cannot dam up life like a sluggish stream.
15
Wallace even found means to dam up the spring which had supplied the citadel with water.
16
That was the old dam up in Norman's Woods, where he and Ruth had gone fishing.
