Sentence examples for each levee from inspiring English sources
But the Ouachita project is far larger, people involved say, both in its size — roughly 25 square miles — and the effort required to remove each levee, roughly 30 feet high and 120 feet wide at the base.
We help each other rebuild levees during floods.
The model runs on a fixed cellular grid and tracks two elevations in each cell, a high elevation representing the channel (levee) top and a low one representing the channel bottom.
The entire section now had to be buttressed with thousands of sandbags, each one of which had to be filled, moved along the levee, and put in place by hand.
From each of the patrons whom Martial, as client, attended at the morning levee (a reception held when arising from bed), he would regularly receive the "dole" of "100 wretched farthings".
There was now a Great Wall of China running up each side of the river, with the difference that while the levees were each about as long as the Great Wall they were in many places higher and in cross-section ten times as large.
These residents, each with lifelong ties to the area, were divided about the decision to blow up the levee.
The entire district lies in the floodplain of the Mississippi, and before the levee was constructed it was flooded routinely, collecting a fresh layer of silt each time.
