Thesaurus results for LEVEE

levee

noun

ˈle-vē

Definition of levee

as in dam

a bank of earth constructed to control water the raging floodwaters were too much for the levee to handle

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as in wharf

a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers we tied the boat up at the levee and started unloading the fish we had caught

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Recent Examples of levee The levees were built, Oliver explained, for a city of 350,000 people. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2026 Old levees and dams, for example, can leave a community vulnerable to catastrophic flooding, as the Seattle area saw in December 2025 when flooding from heavy rainfall broke levees in multiple communities. — Bethany Tietjen, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026 Farther down, the levee that restrains the rivers is a low line of trees into the horizon. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Made to resemble the town’s levee (which held during the Flood of 1993), a full pie is loaded with 18 fresh apples and weighs a whopping 10 pounds. — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for levee

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Noun

Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, inaugurated in September 2025 on the Blue Nile near Sudan, is Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.

— KHALED KAZZIHA, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Pressure over Nile waters Egypt relies almost entirely on the Nile as a source of water for its population and agriculture and has called Ethiopia’s upstream dam an existential threat.

— Khaled Kazziha, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of dam

Noun

Newer signs taped to windows hope to stop the local wharf from becoming a corporate grain terminal.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
Their transatlantic journey is slated to begin in Portsmouth, but once there Håkan loses sight of his brother in the crowds along the wharf.

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of wharf

Noun

Sutter County Fire said the vehicle rolled about 10 feet down an embankment and caught fire with the driver trapped inside.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
The vehicle went into an embankment about a mile north of the East Kuna Mora Road interchange and overturned, according to police.

— Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of embankment

Noun

His argument is the new development will just be a modernized version of the Seaquarium, which also had docks for boats, restaurants and event space.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
The four-app dock at the bottom of the screen has been a staple of iOS since the beginning.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of dock

Noun

In 2024, the city added about 200,000 cubic yards of sand near the pier and 37,000 cubic yards just up the coast at North Beach, the first step in what will be a decades-long process of restoring the beaches.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
That change is in part because the FOG Talks program will move from the back of that pier to a dedicated space, the Cowell Theater, which has 437 seats.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of pier

Noun

The expansion will lengthen the quay and add 15 cranes, allowing the terminal to handle two large container ships at once and cutting turnaround times by up to half, the company said.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Three Yemeni government sources told Reuters air defenses were engaging drones launched by the Houthis toward the commercial quay and storage in the port.

— Reuters, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026

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