Sentence examples for damming from inspiring English sources
'damming' is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as a verb or an adjective. As a verb, 'damming' means to block or restrict the flow of water. For example, "The workers were damming the river to create a reservoir." As an adjective, 'damming' means causing damage or destruction. For example, "The damming effects of pollution on the environment are devastating." Here is an example sentence using both forms of 'damming': "The construction of the dam caused controversy as it involved damming the river, potentially damming the economic growth of nearby communities due to its damming effects on the environment."
verb
Present participle of dam
International projects to eradicate the crop will rely on damming the mighty Kabul and Konar rivers for irrigation and electricity.
Syria has restricted the activities of Kurdish insurgents infiltrating Turkey, while earlier this month Jordan and Syria signed an agreement on damming the Yarmuk, along their southern frontier.The success of Syria's diplomacy stems largely from the impasse in the peace process.
Ethiopia has staked its development on damming the Blue Nile and other rivers.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was charged with delivering cheap hydropower to the rural South, which it did by damming the Tennessee river (see map).Today hydropower accounts for just 9% of the power it generates; the rest comes from coal (41%), nuclear (38%) and natural gas (12%), with a token contribution of less than 1% from renewables (mostly solar).
But ever since the engineers in Brasília rolled out the blueprints for damming the Xingu two decades ago, the project has attracted powerful opposition.Environmental groups and river dwellers say Belo Monte will flood vast patches of rainforest while desiccating others.
Damming the Dnieper and diverting its waters, however, have radically altered its natural hydrology and ecology.
For there is only one good context in which to be dammed - when building a small island because you are a beaver.
One big reason is that Africa has some of the world's best untapped resources, such as huge rivers that are not yet dammed, sunny deserts and windy uplands.
From the economic standpoint psychoanalysis supposes that the mental representations of the instincts have a cathexis of definite quantities of energy, and that it is the purpose of the mental apparatus to hinder any damming-up of these energies and to keep as low as possible the total amount of the excitations to which it is subject.
First, his government brought light to the darkest city in Africa, when it saw through and finished the Bumbuna hydroelectric dam.
The UK move came as the US announced its most concerted bombing campaign yet over northern Iraq to drive Isis forces back, helping Kurdish forces to reclaim Mosul dam.
