Synonym: dam up, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dike, dkm, dyke. Similar words: damn, damage, damping, fundamental. Meaning: [dæm] n. 1. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea 2. a metric unit of length equal to ten meters 3. female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock. v. obstruct with, or as if with, a dam.
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121. There are warnings that the building of the dam will upset the ecological balance of the river basin.
122. Meanwhile, the Czechoslovak government has allocated a budget to promote its position on the dam abroad.
123. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the future of Marysville Dam.
124. Flooding caused by the dam may displace up to a million people.
125. It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle.
126. In 1931, the Corps of Engineers finally pronounced the construction of a concrete dam at Grand Coulee feasible.
127. Nowadays Darra has become an embarrassment to a military regime desperate to dam the flood of weapons flowing through it.
128. Wells also runs the driving range at Hansen Dam in Pacoima.
129. It was quite another thing to build a dam, store the water[sentencedict.com], and make the desert bloom.
130. Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.
131. That water flows into the Sacramento River, where it is further diluted by water from Shasta Dam.
132. It was like reliving the Dam Pool experience all over again, this time from above the water, rather than underneath it.
133. The engineers would build the dam and the irrigation features and walk away from it.
134. About one mile from the dam on the northern side of the lake is a magnificent Gothic style tower.
135. For three decades, water was released from the dam in haphazard fashion, depending on power needs in the Southwest.
136. Blessed with plentiful water from the nearby Mekhand Dam, Shantinagar soon abounded with flowers and flowering shrubs.
137. She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley.
138. I have no icicles and no ice dam,(www.Sentencedict.com) but the snow must be three feet deep on my roof.
139. One bound over the dam and the deer is out of sight of an intruder.
140. This allowed disaster relief experts to construct a new stone wall to reinforce the dam.
141. The dam was finished and in service by September of 1941, an unbelievable sight.
142. A high Grand Coulee Dam, however, would block their passage for ever.
143. The Bureau, however, was not interested in a low dam.
144. At that point, there was no question of intent; a low dam was specifically mentioned in the appropriation.
145. At Bedeford, north Devon, people were evacuated from their homes as a dam holding back flood water overflowed.
146. The biggest factor in calf performance is the milk yield of the dam.
147. It was not, however, a foundation for a low dam-it was the foundation of a high dam.
148. Quips fall off his lips like water over a dam.
149. In other countries smaller dam projects have created bodies of water in which mosquitoes thrive.
150. The dam trapped sediments, and water releases fluctuated wildly, depending on hydroelectric-power needs.