Sentence examples for built a dam of from inspiring English sources

In "Sacred Hunger" we learn that when Kemp was a boy he built a dam of driftwood and stones, attempting to hold back the sea on the Norfolk coast, and his cousin had to lift him bodily away from this compulsive task, which had bloodied his fingers.

After Brisbane's last big flood, in 1974, authorities built a dam on the riverbank west of the city in hope of deterring another.

He obtained financing and built a dam on the east channel of the river between Hennepin Island and Nicollet Island, along with a sawmill equipped with two up-and-down saws.

But four generations, including mine, have always felt compelled to attend the fair to see where our food comes from and to get in trouble in Ye Old Mill, which my father and his cousin once closed down for half an hour when they managed to build a dam of boats in the gently rushing waters.

Around 700 soldiers worked to build a dam of sandbags around a power sub-station in the badly-hit area of Rothensee in a bid to keep the power on.

Jordan can also build a dam of 20 million m3 capacity on the Jordan River and on its reach south of Lake Tiberias on the border between Jordan and Israel.

The Three Gorges Corporation, firm behind the controversial Three Gorges dam, which has displaced more than a million people from around the Yangtze river in the last 20 years, has been contracted to build a dam on the land of the Penan tribe in Sarawak.

In 1907, R. B. Ricketts built a dam upstream of the waterfalls on the Glen Leigh branch of Kitchen Creek, hoping to use the resulting Lake Leigh for hydroelectric power generation.

Dodson also built a dam south of Mud Pond, near what became Lake Jean; both dams were on the Ganoga Glen branch of Kitchen Creek, and each was used to make a "log splash pond".

Its north branch was flooded in the 1920s when the city of Providence built a dam at the village of Kent.

" Conservation Guess Who'll Inherit the Earth It has been 26 years since the government of Thailand built a dam across the Khlong Saeng river, creating a series of islands within a 60-square-mile reservoir that were ideal for studying the speed of mammal extinctions.