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

He traveled around New England and wrote about it, looking for nature at its most untamed, but sometimes finding mills and factories and a river dammed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 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

It is dammed by a massive ridge of rubble that the glacier piled up over thousands of years.

From National Geographic • Jan. 10, 2024

I walk into the eucalyptus grove to where the pond is dammed with earth and a weave of gnarled tree roots.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson