Sentence examples for dig a channel from inspiring English sources

There, male and female workers use ropes, shovels and sheer muscle to move boulders and dig a channel to drain the lake.

Eventually, the project will repair a damaged second dam, dig a channel to connect the two Arals and provide additional water management structures, some able to harvest hydroelectric power from the water flows.

If the water in the shallow pond becomes too warm, or a tadpole gets stranded, Mr. Cook said, the father frog will dig a channel to cooler or deeper water.

You may stand on the embankment for hours, charting where the waves are breaking, and devising a surefire course — all the water rushing in has to return to sea somehow, and it will presumably dig a channel along the course it takes, where fewer waves will presumably break — and then rush to paddle out there, only to find conditions so quickly changed that you never get past the shore break.

If the water collection point is at ground level, you can dig a channel that leads to a storage unit.

On Aug. 9, at 3 05 P.M., 30 policemen with shovels dug a channel through the dike.

In Utopia, Thomas More wrote how King Utopos created an island from an isthmus by digging a channel 15 miles wide.

The government installed pumps and dug a channel to take the 300,000 cubic metres of water to the Nanpan River.

There was a puddle like a lake at that end of the track, and Clark had worked until after dark, digging a channel to drain it away.

Architects cleared 48 acres and dug a channel out to the river so several of the town-house condominiums will overlook a lagoon.

The men were digging a channel, part of the national program of hydraulic development: Erdoğan had recently vowed to build two thousand new dams by the centenary of the republic, in 2023.