dam
Example Sentences
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Her work on an investigative series into Brazil’s deadly dam collapse won a 2019 Sabew and received an Overseas Press Club of America honorable mention.
As of December, its dams were only around 30 percent full on average, and farmers have largely relied on rainwater for irrigation.
From Barron's
"Since the start of January, discharges from dams and reservoirs have been the equivalent of about a year of our country's water consumption," Maria Graça Carvalho told Portuguese media.
From BBC
"There is no scenario in which we can be dependent," he said on a visit to a hydroelectric dam in eastern France.
From Barron's
What if the earthquake had created a natural dam of fallen trees?
From Literature
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