levee
Example Sentences
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Arvin-Edison Water Storage District, near Bakersfield, started building levees and digging basins for imported water in the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times
Still, with all the arriving stresses, the stock market’s levees haven’t broken as yet, and U.S. benchmarks continue to trade within a few percentage points of both their January highs and their late October levels.
From Barron's
“We’re on the levee you were telling me about. Part of the refuge.”
From Literature
Next arrived atmospheric rivers—intense weather systems that broke levees, flooded towns and killed at least one in Western Washington.
And there’s no better classic rock band than Led Zeppelin, a group famously resistant to licensing their songs until recently when the levee has apparently broken.
From Los Angeles Times
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