levee|levees in English

noun

[lev·ee || 'levɪ]

embankment built along a river to prevent flooding; raised edge around an irrigated field; pier; formal reception (such as held by royalty)

Use "levee|levees" in a sentence

1. A levee breach or levee failure (the word dike or dyke can also be used instead of levee) is a situation where a levee fails or is intentionally Breached, causing …

2. Said local levee as " Zhang embankment. "

3. Bigheads on the Levee, Bordelonville, Louisiana

4. Look at that long levee of logs.

5. Look at that levee of logs.

6. The most common and important form of Armoring on earthen levees is grass

7. The Mississippi levee traverses the west side of Clack

8. When a hole breaks in a levee, it's called a Crevasse.

9. Last week, He took his bulldozer to the river levee.

10. The pressure on dams and levee s is very strong.

11. Elders responded when a broken levee caused flooding in California, U.S.A.

12. A western cottonmouth didn't survive the trip across a levee road in Illinois.

13. Levee: a Ceremonious visit received by a distinguished person in the morning

14. Many islands are below sea level and only the levees prevent them from vanishing.

15. Huge levees, dikes, and pumping stations were put up, and more canals and roads crisscrossed the Everglades.

16. Risks caused by many uncertainty factors in levee engineering are cared about by people.

17. 29 Some of these levees are higher and longer than the Great Wall of China.

18. Risks in levee engineering caused by many uncertainty factors are cared about by people.

19. I move on like a sinners prayer. I let them go like a levee breaks.

20. Dams and levees are being planned and built with a view to control of excess water.

21. Convergence of flower near the bottom in sediment accumulation in the form of straight subaqueous levees.

22. Crevasse channels are breaches in natural levees and transfer water and sediment from mainstem channels to flood basins

23. The model can be used in earth - rock allocation of mad engineering and levee engineering widely.

24. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered Coxcombs at her levee

25. Yes; oh, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.