How to Use beaver dam in a Sentence
beaver dam
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Before the work of the engineers, the creek might not have been slowed by a beaver dam.
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Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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The experiences and insights April’s gained through all this pour out of her like a joyous river breaching a beaver dam.
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Outside Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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That might mean blocking beavers from accessing culverts, wrapping trees in protective fencing or using piping to move water from one side of a beaver dam to the other.
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Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
24 Nov. 2025
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Both of these species are large aquatic rodents that influence ecosystems – beaver dam building changes how water moves, sometimes undesirably for land owners, while nutria are non-native and damaging to wetlands.
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Alex Jensen,
The Conversation,
18 Dec. 2025
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Treatment supervisors generate a unique model for each river, adjusting for variables as seemingly inconsequential as the appearance of a new beaver dam, which can completely alter the flow.
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Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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