dam
Example Sentences
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Now with Miriam leaving home—Michael has already graduated and lives in California—the dam is crumbling.
The reservoir of the Amir Kabir dam, one of the largest supplying Iran's capital, is still largely empty despite sporadic winter rainfall following the worst drought in decades, local media reported Wednesday.
From Barron's
A dam is also being built to withhold the water at the site.
From BBC
Egypt and Ethiopia have had some diplomatic tensions, particularly around a dam on the Nile, but there has in no sense been a war between them.
From BBC
The previous February, 132 million gallons of black, sludgy water, heavy with mine wastes, surged through a makeshift dam and down a mountain hollow known as Buffalo Creek.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
