Sentence examples for a levee from inspiring English sources

Now those relationships are a levee eroding.

"New Orleans had a levee break.

The writer was stationed on a levee by the river.

New Orleans was saved by blowing up a levee downstream.

But the mainland remains enclosed by a levee of regulatory controls.

They knew that there could be only one explanation: a levee break upstream.

Peanuts had never raised a levee more than two boards high.

Talkeetna officials said a levee west of town had been breached in two or three places.

In the best of circumstances, a levee in midsummer is a place to avoid.

"When you raise a levee, that water has to go somewhere".

As in New Orleans, the Everglades saw a disastrous flood (in 1928) when a levee broke and thousands died.