dammed
Example Sentences
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Late one night in October 2023, part of the shelf of rocks and ice that dammed the lake in northeast India collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Some Alaskans are evacuating their homes as meltwater escapes a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier - raising fears of record-breaking flooding in the US state's capital city.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Over the last 100 years, rivers across the Central Valley were dammed to provide irrigation for farms, blocking salmon from their natural habitats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
It is dammed by a massive ridge of rubble that the glacier piled up over thousands of years.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
Without a word, she would turn and leave me before I was through, shutting off my torrent, so that my feelings, thus dammed, raged on in my chest.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
