Sentence examples for levee of from inspiring English sources

You could see the levee of the Mississippi River from that corner.

But the mainland remains enclosed by a levee of regulatory controls.

The big dam, like the lock, was fitted into the mainline levee of the Mississippi.

The prison was protected not only by the mainline levee but also by a ring levee of its own.

The Universe, O my brothers, is flinging wide its portals for the Levee of the GREAT HIGH KING.

Likewise the three levee of the known world, a kind of diagram that separates heaven from earth from hell.

That surge overwhelmed the locally built levees of Plaquemines Parish.

She said that coastal Mississippi needs new levees of its own as well.

They are entirely man-made structures separated from the bay by levees of rock and dirt.

The levees of the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta (also known as the California Delta) were built to safeguard crops, not people.

During flooding the high velocity flow indents the levees of existing tidal channels and bays, leaving short flood scours.