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Meanings of floodbank in inglés
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
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?
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.
Usage of floodbank in inglés
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.
6
The flood resilience projects cover floodbank development work on the Whakatāne and Waioeka Rivers and new Ngongotahā flood protection works.
7
Flares had been lit on the floodbank, throwing a guttering light across the crowd that had gathered for the races.
8
He says he wants the council to maintain floodbanks properly.
9
The Neilsons said the water did not come over the floodbanks, but came up through the stormwater system.
Frequent collocations
Floodbank through the time