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
Rahm read a 58-footer over a hill and through a swale.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021
Ko meanwhile sends her third down a swale to the back.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2021
Or wandered into a swale where the air was bad, and never returned.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
