How to Use dike in a Sentence

dike

noun

• Still so many questions about the $50M Scott got for the dike.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2017
• Even if the dike system is built, big risks would remain.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2022
• That day, another noisy flow of magma left the sill and overfilled the dike.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• Residents were told to evacuate amid fears the breach in the dike could widen.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2021
• In the 1930s, an enclosing dike cut the last remaining portion of the Zuiderzee off from the sea and the Ijsselmeer (known as the IJ) came to be.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2017
• 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
• No dike has been erected to stop the flood of new Beethoven recordings, books and articles.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• 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 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 battle is constant as each day water continues to crawl up the dike's wall.
  — Brent Swails, CNN, 6 Dec. 2021
• Sand would be stabilized beneath the dike that holds back the bay next to Oracle Park.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Still, such measures felt at times like patches in a dike that was steadily springing new leaks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• The dike of diplomatic agreements to deal with this aggression is cracked.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
• 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
• In 1967, the Army Corps of Engineers completed an earthen dike along the Tar's southern bank.
  — Tom Foreman Jr., USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• Some 700 people were evacuated from part of the German town of Wassenberg after the breach of a dike on the Run River.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 17 July 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
• 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
• Armies of primarily Chinese workers dredged the land and build dikes.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2017
• Some have floated an even more drastic solution: a gigantic new sea dike that walls off much of the Dutch coast.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• Around 700 people were evacuated from part of the German town of Wassenberg, on the Dutch border, after the breach of a dike on the Rur river.
  — Geir Moulson, ajc, 18 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Since early March, 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 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
• The first step of the restoration project, which is being financed with a mix of public and private dollars, will be the demolition of the existing dike over the coming year.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
• Though the engineering challenges are substantial, the principle is simple: Build a dike to wall off the sea, pump out the water to drain the land behind it, let the soil settle, and build.
  — Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2010

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024