dike

Magma rising from deep within Earth can fracture an oceanic plate, form extensive dike networks, and alter the chemistry of the plate itself.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

To suggest the Dutch are clueless about combat is like suggesting they don’t know how to build a dike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

“And when you were up on the rock, then every crystal, crack, and ripple was endowed with indissoluble, life-saving importance, each dike and chickenhead inalienably itself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

The organization will run out of money for dike maintenance in Bentiu by February, after months of some of the most severe flooding in years.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

Now silently the host of Rohan moved forward into the field of Gondor, pouring in slowly but steadily, like the rising tide through breaches in a dike that men have thought secure.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The new study examined dikes, which are narrow fractures that could theoretically serve as channels for ocean water moving upward through the ice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

After Hurricane Katrina, the federal government spent $14.5 billion on pumps, dikes and walls to protect New Orleans, leading to a significant reduction in the damage caused by Hurricane Ida in 2021.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

But Spanish invaders obliterated the Aztec capital in the 16th century, smashing dikes and other Indigenous hydraulic works.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Scholz landed in the morning in the town of Verden in Lower Saxony where dikes along rivers were soaked with water and close to bursting in some parts of the state.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

Thin strands of river-mist were hanging above the dikes, and crawling over the fields.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lands and waters that today are paved, dammed, diked, dredged, filled and industrialized beyond recognition are increasingly bereft of salmon, game, roots, berries, plants and medicines central to Native cultures.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

An estimated 40% of the original wetland has been diked, drained or destroyed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

Among the dire conditions, some hope arises: In times of drought, work to restore diked shoreline and salt works back to tidal marsh and shallow ponds is paying off for birds.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 16, 2015

For the past 150 years, the marshy area where salmon bred and fed has been dried, diked and dammed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2014

How comes it that you are all diked up in yoah white clothes so early in the season?

From Mary Ware's Promised Land by Goss, John

The Corps of Engineers has to approve the permits because work will be done near the Columbia River diking system and in and around wetlands, Bennett added.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

Oystermen started diking tidelands and cultivating the precious bivalves like a crop — and for a while, they prospered.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

"We need to repair 75 years of diking and draining, but that takes time," he said.

From US News ● Jul. 1, 2016

The Souris was ripping along at 6,610 cfs at Broadway Bridge, a higher flow than what much of the diking in the city was believed able to contain.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2016

Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann