levee in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ 'levi ] ]
Examples
- South Korean rescue teams also built levees around streams and rivers.
- The Mesopotamian civilizations and ancient China also built large levee systems.
- The city built a levee system that is still maintained today.
- Large sections of levee / dunes were washed onto the highway.
- The presence of levees is quite common in many lava flows.
- A small memorial stands at the location of the levee failure.
- Some water also overtopped a section of the Industrial Canal levee.
- However, there are funding battles over the remaining levee improvements.
- One of the divers'tasks would be to inspect levees.
- The levee breach event was a pivotal moment in American history.