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Dike
"Dike" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Twelve boxers chase Victor across the big Sylter dike.
I live near the dike.
You live near the dike.
He lives near the dike.
She lives near the dike.
Tom lives near the dike.
Mary lives near the dike.
We live near the dike.
They live near the dike.
Let's cut the dike.
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In 1574, the duke of Alva laid siege to Leiden to gain control of Holland's most beautiful and prosperous city. To relieve the siege, William of Orange and his followers opened the city's protective dikes to flush out—literally—the surrounding Spanish forces.
Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks—these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners.
In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize.
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