How to Use levee in a Sentence

levee

noun
  • The tribe's new levee stands four feet taller than the old one.
    — John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026
  • Over time, the landscape around these levees changed.
    — Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Standing on the sloping bank of a levee, the group said a prayer.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • Reforms came fast, as though a levee had been broken.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But a clue to the power of these grasses lies just over the levee to the west.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Norris once again started the fourth with an out, but then the levee broke.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The levees weren’t the only structures that failed.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The new levees will replace old dirt berms that are 6 to 10 feet high.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Assembly of the levee took two hours and went off without a hitch.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There are other sources as well, like a dam or levee collapsing.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Those canals, levees and roads broke up the natural flow of the water.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • In the last two days, two levees have been breached in suburbs of Seattle.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The task now is to build that bed to the top level of the levee to stop water from flowing in.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
  • There are no campgrounds, recreation sites or private homes at risk should the levee fail.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The levee was damaged in floods about four years ago and hadn’t yet been fully repaired.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
  • What was worse, the hurricane itself or the levee breaks?
    — Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
  • In his view, its role is merely to maintain the levees for flood protection.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
  • Authorities said their bodies were found on the levee near a canal.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the time, levees don’t demand attention.
    — Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In New Orleans, the storm surge strained the levee system.
    — Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The water topped the levees designed to protect the area from flooding.
    — Jessica Jordan, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Trees climb over each other above thick knots of reedy grass, consuming what used to be levees and culverts.
    — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Downstream, farmers and cities have erected hundreds of miles of levees and canals.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Many levees were never designed for that kind of sustained pressure.
    — Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The levees that solved its flooding concerns also hampered its growth.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The Marysville ring levee project started in 2010.
    — Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • As hopes of a levee repair fizzled, farmers were stranded.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • One came to rest atop the levee that separates the property from the bayou.
    — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Everywhere there were birds; a river otter darted across the top of a levee.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The plan is to provide flood control and update the aging levee system.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Jan. 2026

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