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"Dam" in a Sentence (22 examples)
The villagers were displaced by the construction of a dam.
There was a water mill below the dam.
The dam gave way and sent a great flush of water down the valley.
Is there much water in the dam?
There used to be a village here before the dam was made.
This dam was built at the cost of many lives.
This dam supplies us with water and electricity.
They say that a huge dam will be built.
The dam burst owing to the heavy rain.
They say that a large dam will be built.
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A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins[…]
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam.
Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
More dear […] than younglings to their dam.
The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went.
Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe[…].
she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon)[…].
The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam.
[…] A small Indian coin; whence comes the saying "I don't care a dam for you," that is I don't value you a farthing, and not as generally given, "I don't care a damn" or a "curse for you." [Possibly a folk etymology.]
Do not get too caught up in individual campism. The Most-High sent your spirits back on earth to fix yourselves, come together and wake up our people, so do your dam job and stop letting your fleshly desires control you.
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