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 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 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 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 .
6 He said an investigation would be needed to determine how the breach in the Rangitāiki River's stopbank occurred.
7 Whakatāne District Council said it had been advised the amount of rain forecast would not threaten the stopbank .
8 Dairy farmer breaks stopbank without consent.
9 He says a critical part of the inquiry will be what led to the failure of the stopbank .
10 For 30 years, Reuben Cohen has owned his home on College Road, near where the Rangitāiki river stopbank breached.
11 But it says the reasons why a crucial stopbank collapsed are complex and no one thing would have prevented what happened.
12 The Whangarei Council is considering prosecuting dairy farmers who cut into a stopbank to let flood waters out following recent storms.
13 The West Coast Regional Council has given the the go-ahead to rebuild the Waiho River stopbank destroyed in flooding two weeks ago.
14 Richard Molloy said parts of his farm on the flats beside the Waiho River were two-and-a half-metres underwater after the stopbank breached.
15 It comes after a stopbank burst near their properties on Friday and another 150mm of rain fell on the district last night.
16 The Edgecumbe homes that were red stickered after a wall of water burst through the town's stopbank in April are finally being demolished.
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