dammed in English

verb
1
build a dam across (a river or lake).
Lake Nasser was formed by damming the River Nile.
synonyms:block (up)obstructbung upcloseocclude
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "dammed" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "dammed", or refer to the context using the word "dammed" in the English Dictionary.

1. LaHood dammed up the creek.

2. They dammed and tamed the wild stream.

3. They dammed the water to control flooding.

4. The stream was dammed up to form ornamental lakes.

5. Her dammed-up intelligence overflowed like a flood plain.

6. Before being dammed, the Clinch River was a major producer of freshwater mussels and pearls.

7. The river is dammed at Launceston's Trevallyn Dam and used for the city's hydroelectricity.

8. 24 They dammed up the river to make a lake for their water supply.

9. Several of Tasmania's largest rivers have been dammed at some point to provide hydroelectricity.

10. North of Bautzen, the river is dammed by a reservoir (Talsperre Bautzen, 5.5 km2).

11. Tele photo view of the medial moraines and the ice-dammed lake (July 1, 2008).

12. Synonyms for Bunged include blocked, plugged, stopped, stuffed, dammed, filled, packed, clogged, choked and obstructed

13. Across much of its range, lakes were also dammed at their outlets for early timber operations.

14. The Gender has been dammed off in the post-war years, but the Dommel still runs through it.

15. The main rivers through the district are the Ruhr, the Lippe and the Möhne, which is dammed to form the Möhne Reservoir.

16. The narrow defile which had once been bridged by the Romans was now dammed to create a vast reservoir upstream.

17. The river has been dammed numerous times, primarily during the 20th century since the 1930s by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) projects.

18. The Island was created when the waters of the Chagres River were dammed by the Gatun Dam to create the Gatun lake.

19. The vast majority of the Missouri River drainage system has been channeled and dammed, reducing the gravel deposits and slow-moving side channels that are its favored spawning areas.

20. In Ghana, the Volta River has been dammed by a hydroelectric generating station to supply an aluminum smelter and a plant for processing one of the world’s largest deposits of bauxite into alumina.

21. "No," Harry answered but after a pause added with Agroan, "except for Snape's dammed essay." "I'm sure that Malfoy will write it for you if you give him the right initiative," George said

22. To assess historical changes in the abundance of riparian cottonwoods (Populus balsamifera, Populus angustifolia, and a few Populus deltoides), airphoto analyses were conducted for 40-km river reaches upstream and downstream from the dam and along adjacent dammed and undammed rivers.

23. Use in a sentence Conjointly-by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman-a howl-a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, Conjointly from the throats of the dammed in their agony and of the demons that exult in the