How to Use dike in a Sentence

dike

noun
  • Residents were told to evacuate amid fears the breach in the dike could widen.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2021
  • Still so many questions about the $50M Scott got for the dike.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2017
  • That day, another noisy flow of magma left the sill and overfilled the dike.
    — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Still, such measures felt at times like patches in a dike that was steadily springing new leaks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The battle is constant as each day water continues to crawl up the dike's wall.
    — Brent Swails, CNN, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The dike is located just over an hour outside of Houston.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The dike of diplomatic agreements to deal with this aggression is cracked.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • No dike has been erected to stop the flood of new Beethoven recordings, books and articles.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Moses finally rose from the sea Friday, acting as a kind of a on-demand dike.
    — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 11 July 2020
  • The dike had broken, and the firefighters abandoned their efforts.
    — Kansas City Public Library Staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • About a dozen dead carp had been recovered from a river dike, Ferguson said.
    — David Douglas, NBC news, 27 May 2026
  • Or there were pit houses before bulldozers leveled the ground and concrete built a dike to make room for boaters and campers.
    — Nicole Walker, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The core examples are nuclear power plants, dams, dikes.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Armies of primarily Chinese workers dredged the land and build dikes.
    — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2017
  • Sand would be stabilized beneath the dike that holds back the bay next to Oracle Park.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Other trails follow a portion of the 7 miles of earthen levees or dikes that protect the city from flooding.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 16 May 2017
  • But like a finger in the dike, this delayed the flood but was hardly enough to sustain them indefinitely.
    — Michael Agnew, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
  • After more than a week of heavy rain, dikes and temporary dams have become ineffective in some regions.
    — Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And building the dike in Kazakhstan cut off the south part of the sea in Uzbekistan from its crucial water source.
    — Victoria Milko, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Swollen by rain, pushed by winds, the Tar surged over, around and even under the dike, washing homes from their foundations and the dead from their graves.
    — Tom Foreman Jr., USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The old lakebed, now mostly farmland, has been steadily filling with runoff that the region’s levees, dikes and dams have not been able to contain.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The levee would be extended, roads would be raised, and gates would be installed in culverts to prevent water passing through the dike.
    — Tom Foreman Jr., USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The money raised would pay for an earthen dike to be constructed across the northern portion of the Salton Sea.
    — Lauren Steele, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2014
  • The dike includes an asphalt road that is 24 feet wide, and 12 feet of shoulders on either side of the crushed gravel.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • By taking down part of the old dike and building a new one farther back, the project has given the river some breathing room, expanding the floodplain.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • City officials warned residents in the vicinity of the dikes to prepare to evacuate.
    — Kansas City Public Library Staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • Mostly open to the sun, the trails pass among mesquite patches, desert hackberry shrubs and sections where runoff from the canal dike fosters lush greenery that attracts wildlife.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The findings are in line with years of warnings that large earthquakes could cause permanent damage to the seawall, which consists of a crude dike of rocks topped by concrete.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • As a storm is slowly approaching, Gregers and his faithful dog inspect the obsolete dikes that protect his beloved island.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The restoration project is lowering the Skipper Bay dike to bring back the meandering creeks used by the sucker.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021

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