Sentence examples for on a levee from inspiring English sources

The writer was stationed on a levee by the river.

Later, I watched Ramos pacing on a levee above the Mississippi River in the twilight, talking on his cell phone, pondering his next move.

Five days after the storm, a boat finally came and dropped them off on a levee, where Ms. Breaux, 76, died.

Mr. Tanner left the city but returned weeks later, he said, and found his car, with the remains of Mr. Glover inside, burned and parked on a levee behind a police station.

"Why would we spend $50 million on a levee if we're going to get scared and move every time the water comes up?" Mr. Beard said, standing in his yard.

As many as 80,000 people, from many states and countries, typically attend the festival, which takes place over three days on a levee where the Mississippi River stretches half a mile wide.

Pitched as timeless myth as much as post-Katrina allegory, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (June 27) revolves around the ragtag inhabitants of a southern Louisiana bayou village on the wrong side of a levee, bracing for an all-but-biblical flood and coming together in the aftermath.

Claudia Diaz, a 44-year-old woman who lives in New Mexico, where she does not have legal status, walked onto a levee on the U.S. side of the border, past Border Patrol agents and a highly fortified fence.

On Wednesday, a levee on the Black River in northeastern Arkansas failed, flooding local highways but causing no fatalities, officials said.

Medical experts on Thursday performed an autopsy on Mr. McMillian, whose body was found beside a levee on Wednesday near Clarksdale, where he was running for office.

It reads: "On August 29, 2005, a federal floodwall atop a levee on the 17th Street Canal, the largest and most important drainage Canal for the city, gave way here causing flooding that killed hundreds".