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Meanings of levée in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dyke"
Examples for "dyke"
1
The Makololo guided the canoes admirably through the opening in the dyke.
2
No time was lost in breaking through the dyke in several places.
3
The flood-battered Changkai dyke near Fuzhou suffered a fresh breach on Wednesday.
4
I read in the paper that you're some sort of fucking dyke.
5
On either side of the dyke was the water, black and silent.
1
I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
2
And a moment later Drusus saw the general coming up the embankment.
3
He had paused on the brink of a crevasse in the embankment.
4
The embankment dropped several feet down into the water weeds and mangroves.
5
The city bus was almost as long as the embankment was high.
1
He was not worried that the water would actually breach the dike.
2
What's going to happen to the dike, after two months of floodwater?
3
If the men could touch the dike before the fire, they won.
4
Your argument about the perpendicularity of the dike strikes me as good.
5
Grant guessed it would take four more passes to open the dike.
1
There have been 13 trucks and three diggers working to repair the stopbank.
2
The council will buy the land to put a new stopbank along the river banks.
3
Photo: RNZ The Bay of Plenty Regional Council hoped to finish work on the stopbank tonight.
4
Work has started to repair the stopbank breach.
5
Sir Michael Cullen is heading an independent review into the breach of the Rangitaiki River stopbank.
1
The chimneys of the Eel's Foot came into view along the floodbank.
2
Other spectators were already crowding along the high floodbank, between the flares.
3
I know where we can borrow a boat on the floodbank down there.
4
It said new information about the state of the nearby floodbank delayed the re-start.
5
RNZ reporter Tim Brown is on the floodbank in Gore.
Usage of levée in English
1
The next day they were at the prince's levée, and introduced by Edward.
2
When the king's levée was announced, the persons not presented withdrew.
3
It's a long time since you have been at a levée.
4
The Queen held a levée on Friday, for gentlemen only.
5
Who would go to a levée in a straw hat?
6
I think these gentlemen have all been reinstated in their properties since the last levée.
7
However, he wore the uniform to-day at the levée.
8
He must not attempt to appear at the levée in any other than these conventional clothes.
9
The next morning the King had a levée.
10
None of the Whigs or Whig Radicals were at the levée, but a good many Tories.
11
She was dressed in her brightest of morning dresses, and had quite a levée round her couch.
12
I attended the levée of Prince Kaunitz.
13
The great levée was over.
14
The levée was now over.
15
But she likes her bed, as other pretty women do, and is practising for the petite levée, like a duchess.
16
But the levée uniforms of the officers gave an air of brilliance contrasted with the civilians of the Government of Egypt.
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