Sentence examples for the dyke from inspiring English sources

The dyke".

"It's putting a finger in the dyke.

A "holding position" and "finger in the dyke", he said.

But such supposedly supportive pieces were fingers in the dyke amid the deluge of negative articles.

Liverpool managed to stick their fingers in the dyke during the second half.

Mr Crockett's committee thinks three fingers will more or less suffice to plug the dyke.

Who was the Quaker after whom Quaker's Stang, the pathway across the dyke, was named?

The Dyke era was also assisted by a very generous licence fee settlement.

He thought he'd won, but of course he just had his finger in the dyke.

The corruption implied by the illegal building did not extend to oiling the wheels to get the dyke fixed.

The dyke charge was "a politically motivated attack", it said, with a variant of what Jews call the "Livingstone formulation".