How to Use levee in a Sentence

levee

noun
Definition of leveenext
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  • The corps announced the plan to build the levee last year.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But a clue to the power of these grasses lies just over the levee to the west.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Standing on the sloping bank of a levee, the group said a prayer.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • The task now is to build that bed to the top level of the levee to stop water from flowing in.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Woods said the breach in the levee occurred near Pitts Road on the west side of Arkansas 18.
    — Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Norris once again started the fourth with an out, but then the levee broke.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Assembly of the levee took two hours and went off without a hitch.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • That's where a levee failure led to flooding on New Year's Eve.
    — Adam Beam, ajc, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The levee, built in 1949, has failed several times over the past decades and was set to be shored up next year as part of a state flood risk project.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Further downstream, a levee was moved back a few blocks.
    — Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
  • One came to rest atop the levee that separates the property from the bayou.
    — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Floodwater from a break in levees surrounds a farm in Lemoore, Calif., on March 21.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Since 1988, the Army Corps has used sills, or underwater levees, to block the salt, drawing from the same pool of funds as the dredging project.
    — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Maps of the lava flows from March 20-26 show how they have mostly been diverted by the walls and levees built to the north and west of Grindavík.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The Army Corps also announced plans at the same news conference to make the levee larger.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There are no campgrounds, recreation sites or private homes at risk should the levee fail.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The process would help the levees resist the powerful forces of water erosion.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • And farmers just beyond the levees, their grain ripening in the field as both harvest and rising freight costs loomed.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Rudy Mussi has lived through two devastating levee failures near his land, in a part of the Delta called the Jones Tract.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Downstream, farmers and cities have erected hundreds of miles of levees and canals.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Trees climb over each other above thick knots of reedy grass, consuming what used to be levees and culverts.
    — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
  • There are other sources as well, like a dam or levee collapsing.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
  • People think, Someone must have blown up the levee, because people are getting so rich off of all of this.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The levee where the suspect was standing is near the 500 block of Cypress Street, which is lined with single-family homes, maps show.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The woman who died had been staying in a tent just off where a levee system meets the American River.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Everywhere there were birds; a river otter darted across the top of a levee.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Kyle said the city plans to spend $3.2 million from the American Rescue Plan and state funding to dredge the lagoon and raise its levees this summer.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In the town of Pajaro alone, a breached levee put hundreds of acres of strawberries under water.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
  • The levee break comes as the state faces unrelenting rain which could last until Wednesday.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The starry pause is luxuriant, and short-lived; a levee has given way, and the water begins to rise.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021

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