swale
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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
But then he makes an unforced error, pulling his approach down the swale to the left of the green.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2022
“It’s like there is a wall, a miserable border,” Bill Jones said of the grassy swale between their homes, before he recently moved to an assisted living facility in Sooke.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
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
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