Sentence examples for through the levee from inspiring English sources
The culverts run through the levee and empty into a canal.
Lahars breaking through the levees caused fatalities and destroyed many homes.
Today - water is breaking through the levees of our industrial-strength denial.
Water was already seeping through the base of the levee into the fields, and the dirt road leading from the farmhouse to the levee had already turned into a quagmire.
Her house had been flooded four times before during high water seasons, she said, but this time the force of the waters from the levee breaches washed through her five-bedroom home.
By 6 a.m., it was clear that the levee had held steady through the night.
In the end, it was the southeast corner that gave way: the river pushed against muskrat holes in the levee until it burst through, lifting a pile of sandbags that soldiers had laid Monday and sweeping away a section that soon grew to a 65-foot-wide gash in the levee.
Her home was just feet from the levee, and she frantically shifted through her possessions Wednesday in advance of what she has taken to calling the "prairie tsunami".
"I sat there and cried through it all," said Twyla Luhr, whose late husband built the levee protecting Valmeyer.
