Sentence examples for a damming of from inspiring English sources

The Fleet continues to wind its way north, ending up at Hampstead Heath, the ponds of which were actually formed by a damming of the river in the 18th Century.

But Warsi's resignation broke a dam of criticism of Israel in the Conservative party.

It was as if a dam of intellectual resistance to emotional distress finally burst.

Two of their regular dinner companions had recently died, she told him, breaching a dam of tears.

May I humbly beg for patience with my country, which is stuck like a beaver in a dam of its own making.

The King of Sentences only wrote, beavering away himself on a dam of quintessence, while wholly oblivious of public indifference and of a sales record by now likely descending to rungs occupied by poets.

There are also smaller random elements, like the location of Sam's cape (he can't very well begin his superhero duties without it) or which condiment needs to be spread on a dam of giant French fries.

However, an old debris flow deposit terrace caused a dam of the debris flow.

The catchment area is 590 km2, controlled by a dam of the same name with a capacity of 62 million m3.

The ERT method can be adapted to a dam of any size, as long as the profiles are long enough (investigation depth ~ 1/6 of the ERT profile length).

It has floated downstream and been snagged in the shallows by a dam of fallen twigs and branches.