How to Use flowage in a Sentence

flowage

noun
  • The eastern fifth of the flowage is a voluntary quiet area and no-wake zone.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2020-06-18
  • A dam project from the late-1920s created a flowage that gained a reputation for staggering walleye numbers.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2017-07-07
  • Litke reports that the National Hydrography Dataset has 54 different terms, including lake, pond, basin, flowage and reservoir that more or less mean the same thing—lake.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 2019-07-20

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