Sample Sentences forlevee (auto-selected)
levee as in: want a higher levee
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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
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Something broke in me, a dam or a levee.† (source)
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To control the water depth on our land, I built a low levee across the area.† (source)
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I could smell and hear humans on the paths of the square, moving about the market, along the levee.† (source)
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Now the levee broke wide open.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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not for me, who can only say that England abounded in these small companies of intimate friends, so that, as in this case of Julia and myself, we could live in the same street in London, see at times, a few miles distant, the rural horizon, could have a liking one for the other, a mild curiosity about the other's fortunes, a regret, even, that we should be separated, and the knowledge that either of us had only to pick up the telephone and speak by the other's pillow, enjoy the intimacies of the levee, coming in, as it were, with the morning orange juice and the sun, yet be restrained from doing so by the centripetal force of our own worlds and the cold, interstellar space between them.† (source)
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People in the crowd collapse like levees in a flood.† (source)
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It was a passion to get her affairs in order before she had to retire behind doors, to have as much money as possible in case the deluge broke upon her again, to have a stout levee of cash against the rising tide of Yankee hate.† (source)
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He began building a vast red-brick headquarters in Imam Deri complete with a madrasa, a mosque and walls and levees to protect it from the Swat River.† (source)
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And then I plans to stop by the Morgans' sugar cane field near the levee.† (source)
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Salt ponds occur naturally in the San Francisco Bay, and are also man-made and controlled by levees in order to make commercial salt.† (source)
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The levee broke, and the Lower Nine flooded.† (source)
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"The queen who mended her stockings in prison," he thought, "must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees."† (source)
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Far up the street the levee seemed to have broken.† (source)
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The words rushed from his heart, incoherent, unashamed, foaming through the broken levees of pride and silence.† (source)
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