swale
Example Sentences
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The land here was laser-leveled, and workers carved a swale to give juvenile salmon a way in and out when the plain floods.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
“It took me two months end to end,” Bautista said, including gutters, hardscape, edging and building a trench to the swale in the backyard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
Ko meanwhile sends her third down a swale to the back.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2021
It starts with a drive over a deep swale known as “The Kitchen.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2021
He ran up through the swale of seaoats where he’d left the cart but the cart was gone.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
