Sentence examples for a dam across from inspiring English sources

Any kid who has built a dam across a stream knows this.

They built a dam across the Khlong Saeng river, creating a 60-square-mile reservoir.

The Meramec caught the eye of the Army Corps of Engineers which plans to build a dam across it.

Sometimes the tidal flow was assisted by building a dam across the estuary of a small river.

Settlers build a dam across a valley to power a grist mill, and a pond forms behind the dam, inundating the original valley wetland.

At Richard-Toll a large area is irrigated by means of a dam across the Taoué (Taouey), a tributary stream up which Sénégal floods penetrate to Lake Guier.

Just outside Las Lomas, a proposed hydroelectric project would involve building a huge dam across a valley, creating a body of water a third of a mile wide and more than three miles long.

About 30 percent of the creek's course has been inundated by the Sulphur Creek Reservoir, formed in the 1950s by a large dam across a broad north-trending valley.

Arab historians of the 12th century described Ahwāz as the centre of a large sugarcane- and rice-growing area irrigated by a system of great canals from a dam constructed across the river on solid rock.

He likened their impact to that of a dam built across a river: just as a dam "causes a local deepening of the stream, so our atmosphere, thrown as a barrier across the terrestrial rays, produces a local heightening of the temperature at the earth's surface".

Thus, in 1862, John Tyndall, a British researcher, wrote about infrared radiation, "As a dam built across a river causes a local deepening of the stream, so our atmosphere, thrown as a barrier across the terrestrial rays, produces a local heightening of the temperature at the earth's surface".