Ridge or wall to hold back water.
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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.
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.
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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