Sentence examples for on a dyke from inspiring English sources

He didn't need to stand on a dyke in the Netherlands to draw the sky.

"Any time you rely on a dyke to contain something, whether it's water or tailings, it's going to fail some day, sooner or later," said Henry Vaux, a resource economist at the University of California Riverside.

"Any time you you rely on a dyke to contain something, whether it's water or tailings, it's going to fail some day, sooner or later," said Henry Vaux, a resource economist at the University of California Riverside.

Ofoegbu (1985) in his study of the magnetic feature of the nearby Benue Trough, observed a magnetic anomaly on a dyke-like body.

On Wednesday, emergency teams blew up a dyke on the west bank of the Chenab river upstream from a major dam at Trimmu, in order to prevent flood waters from bursting through.

But don't point a finger at me and say I'm a dyke on a bike.

I mention this because the PCC has just censured AA Gill of The Sunday Times for describing the television presenter Clare Balding as a "dyke on a bike".

Sunday Times editor John Witherow refuses to apologise to Clare Balding after writer AA Gill called her a "dyke on a bike".

In the Gill case, however, the description of Balding as a "dyke on a bike" was deemed to be a pejorative reference to her sexuality.

You may have already heard that Balding curiously took exception to the Sunday Times' television critic referring to her as a "dyke on a bike" in a recent review.

He called the TV presenter a "dyke on a bike" in a television review of her BBC4 programme Britain by Bike and compounded the hurt with a mock apology for previously saying that she looked "like a big lesbian".