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an embankment (wall or slope) that is built to prevent a river from overflowing

Residents are working to fortify levees in expectation of heavy flooding tomorrow.

levees = an embankment (wall or slope) that is built to prevent a river from overflowing

In about 100 years, the city will need higher levees because of global warming.
Each new levee increases the need for levees elsewhere on the river.
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good. When the levee breaks, mama you got to move.
Led Zeppelin
The people said when the levee first broke ... they could hear that water coming for miles.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

levee = an embankment (wall or slope) that is built to prevent a river from overflowing

The levees were meant to hold back fourteen feet of water, and the storm surges in the Gulf were already nineteen, twenty feet high.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

levees = an embankment (wall or slope) that is built to prevent a river from overflowing

Then he held a public levee in the parlours of the Iroquois until eight o'clock.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
And the little levee of earth extended until it connected with the highway embankment on either end.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
Like water through a breaking levee, the memories flooded his mind.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
Salt ponds occur naturally in the San Francisco Bay, and are also man-made and controlled by levees in order to make commercial salt.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
To control the water depth on our land, I built a low levee across the area.
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
People in the crowd collapse like levees in a flood.
Marie Lu -- Legend
The words rushed from his heart, incoherent, unashamed, foaming through the broken levees of pride and silence.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
They thought I was one of them who got drowned when the levee broke, but I done broke the chain and gone.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
Why, Lord Steyne cut me at the levee last year; they are beginning to find out that Pitt Crawley is some one at last.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
The levee was drawing to a close.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
They saw each other socially at dinners and presidential levees, and on more than one occasion, Jefferson rode out to Richmond Hill.
David McCullough -- John Adams
But Oswald is pleased with the purchase and gets in the habit of riding the bus to a dry riverbed for target practice against the levee.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
Far up the street the levee seemed to have broken.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
They was setting in the wagon at the end of the levee when I caught up with them.
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

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