Sentence examples for is damming from inspiring English sources
noun
A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow.
- A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
Now he is damming the flow, as it were, and asking the question: what if love gets in the way?
Beijing is damming the upper reaches of the Mekong River with the world's largest arch dam, Xiaowan Dam.
In an unprecedented legal claim in Europe, Saul Luciano Lliuya demands that RWE pay part of the costs for urgent protective measures as his home lies in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which is damming glacial melt-water upstream of his home in the town of Huaraz, in Peru's Cordillera Blanca, or white mountain range.
Usada, the body which investigated and disclosed Lance Armstrong's alleged doping offences, is damming of the UCI's current stance.
In the cave, Bond and Camille discover Quantum is damming Bolivia's supply of fresh water to create a monopoly.
It is dammed for hydroelectric power.
Flowing water is dammed up, deliberately and inadvertently, and pools.
A chief threat to the dinosaurlike fish is dams.
It seems a lot of energy is dammed up artificially.
The river is dammed now, courtesy of the bank.
Iao Stream is dammed there to provide wading and swimming pools.
