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