Use dikes in a sentence
Sentences ending with dikes
- We sailed by the hotel in the mellow glow of sunset, and came slashing down with the mad current into the narrow passage between the dikes. [5]
More example sentences with the word dikes in them
- He has to watch the huge dikes which keep the ocean from overwhelming him, and the river-banks, which may break, and let the floods of the Rhine swallow him up. [4]
- I took it to be rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling over her dikes and dams far below, in the gorge. [5]
- In low water these neat narrow-edged dikes project four or five inches above the surface, like the comb of a submerged roof, but in high water they are overflowed. [5]
- The river is not always allowed to spread over its whole bed--which is as much as thirty, and sometimes forty yards wide--but is split into three equal bodies of water, by stone dikes which throw the main volume, depth, and current into the central one. [5]
- We met her in a narrow place, between dikes, and there was hardly room for us both in the cramped passage. [5]
- Then that flood came which sweeps away the rust that gathers in the eyes and breaks through the closed dikes of the heart. [11]
- There are dikes abreast the Schloss Hotel, and the current is violently swift at that point. [5]
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