channelled

Example Sentences

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There are even recharge sites along the mostly channelized Los Angeles River and in other urban areas around the state.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Some of the gasoline flowed into Hill Ditch, a channelized portion of Bulson Creek, part of the Skagit River watershed.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

Yet California squandered much of the bounty from its recent unusually wet winter, as levees, channelized rivers and paved cities funneled much of the runoff into the ocean rather than capturing it.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

“There’s something unnatural about a straightened, channelized river,” said Dr. Jackman, who earned a doctorate in biology after retiring from the police force.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2020

I seem to feel that it wants something, that its direction has become more channelized.

From The Issahar Artifacts by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)