leveein a sentence
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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Now the levee broke wide open.† (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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People in the crowd collapse like levees in a flood.† (source)
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But he lay back on the steep levee then, and for a long time he appeared to be looking at the stars.† (source)
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The women were presumed to have been ravished, the men robbed, their corpses plunged into the turgid waters of the Chicago River or the alleys of Halsted and the Levee and that hard stretch of Clark between Polk and Taylor known to veteran officers as Cheyenne.† (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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Levee breaches could happen, they said.† (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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To control the water depth on our land, I built a low levee across the area.† (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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And then I plans to stop by the Morgans' sugar cane field near the levee.† (source)
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The only thing that concerned him was the levees.† (source)
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Like water through a breaking levee, the memories flooded his mind.† (source)
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But some people said that the levees weren't strong enough for a really big storm.† (source)
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