How to Use levee in a Sentence

levee

noun

• The corps announced the plan to build the levee last year.
  — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• But a clue to the power of these grasses lies just over the levee to the west.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
• Standing on the sloping bank of a levee, the group said a prayer.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• The task now is to build that bed to the top level of the levee to stop water from flowing in.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
• Woods said the breach in the levee occurred near Pitts Road on the west side of Arkansas 18.
  — Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
• Norris once again started the fourth with an out, but then the levee broke.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
• Assembly of the levee took two hours and went off without a hitch.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• That's where a levee failure led to flooding on New Year's Eve.
  — Adam Beam, ajc, 6 Jan. 2023
• The levee, built in 1949, has failed several times over the past decades and was set to be shored up next year as part of a state flood risk project.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2023
• Further downstream, a levee was moved back a few blocks.
  — Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
• One came to rest atop the levee that separates the property from the bayou.
  — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2021
• Floodwater from a break in levees surrounds a farm in Lemoore, Calif., on March 21.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• Since 1988, the Army Corps has used sills, or underwater levees, to block the salt, drawing from the same pool of funds as the dredging project.
  — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Maps of the lava flows from March 20-26 show how they have mostly been diverted by the walls and levees built to the north and west of Grindavík.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• The Army Corps also announced plans at the same news conference to make the levee larger.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• There are no campgrounds, recreation sites or private homes at risk should the levee fail.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• The process would help the levees resist the powerful forces of water erosion.
  — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• And farmers just beyond the levees, their grain ripening in the field as both harvest and rising freight costs loomed.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• Rudy Mussi has lived through two devastating levee failures near his land, in a part of the Delta called the Jones Tract.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• Downstream, farmers and cities have erected hundreds of miles of levees and canals.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• Trees climb over each other above thick knots of reedy grass, consuming what used to be levees and culverts.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• There are other sources as well, like a dam or levee collapsing.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
• People think, Someone must have blown up the levee, because people are getting so rich off of all of this.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• The levee where the suspect was standing is near the 500 block of Cypress Street, which is lined with single-family homes, maps show.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024
• The woman who died had been staying in a tent just off where a levee system meets the American River.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2023
• Everywhere there were birds; a river otter darted across the top of a levee.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• Kyle said the city plans to spend $3.2 million from the American Rescue Plan and state funding to dredge the lagoon and raise its levees this summer.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• In the town of Pajaro alone, a breached levee put hundreds of acres of strawberries under water.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
• The levee break comes as the state faces unrelenting rain which could last until Wednesday.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2023
• Although in 1993 the levees around Kansas City held, the flooding from May through September was devastating.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024