polder

Example Sentences

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Lee said Singapore’s future options include building polders, areas of land reclaimed from a body of water, or reclaiming a series of islands offshore and connecting them with barrages.

From Reuters

Now pumps are run by diesel, not wind, but the polder landscape of small rectangles of land surrounded by drainage channels remains.

From New York Times

The mammoth project follows another major infrastructure initiative announced last autumn, in which 20,000 new homes will be built on a polder, low-lying land reclaimed from the sea, north of the capital.

From The Guardian

British tanks arrived too late to help; they had to come by a narrow road, dubbed “Hell’s Highway”, which ran across marshy polder land and was highly vulnerable to German attack.

From Economist

Out in West Flanders, where windmills and church towers dot the countryside, the flat polder land runs through the battlefields of World War One.

From BBC