Sentence examples for a dam for from inspiring English sources

The long, low building acts as a dam for a ten-acre artificial lake, with a wildflower meadow on one side and water on the other.

C started acting like a dam for C-0, until at one point C-0 halted completely and started flowing in the opposite direction.

Most of them are… A REPORTER AT LARGE about the so-called Pawnee montane skipper, a rare butterfly and the possible construction of a dam for Denver's water supply in… Talk story about Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso.

The Middle Vaitarna Dam, currently the ninth fastest in the world, will be ready soon and we are the only municipal corporation in India to make a dam for a city.

Not everyone would want a dam for a neighbor, not to mention its nearly 12 million cubic yards of concrete (enough for a highway from Seattle to Miami, as a fact sheet notes).

When I first visited Tasmania in the 1980s the island was in the throes of a war over a plan by the the state government of the day to obliterate the pristine Franklin river with a dam for hydro-electricity.

For engineers who build a high dam for a reservoir it is essential to be given a spectrum of accelerations in m/s2 in order to design the dam to resist the accelerations deemed possible by seismologists.

A barrage (a low dam for diverting water) at Al-Hindiyyah that collapsed in the late 19th century was replaced in 1908 by the present structure.

He also played a pivotal role in blocking a dam, proposed for the Green River in Utah, that would have flooded parts of Dinosaur National Monument.

Surplus tailings were discharged into the river and into a dam built for the purpose downstream of Basin.

In 1944, the United States Bureau of Reclamation chief design engineer, John L. Savage, surveyed the area and drew up a dam proposal for the 'Yangtze River Project'.