How to use dam in a sentence

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• How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?From the entry head
• Heavy rains have caused the dam's abutments to seep, raising concern over possible dam failure.From the entry abutment
• The plan to build a dam just downriver from Fooville was foiled by unsatisfactory soil mechanics.From the entry soil mechanics
• The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.From the entry stick
• The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.From the entry sweep
• The dam can't hold back that much water.From the entry hold back
• Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply a patch to the hole so that everything can dry off.From the entry patch
• Despite the town's best efforts, the dam inevitably gave way.From the entry inevitably
• Altogether it took hundreds of person-years to build the bridge and dam, and such a payroll is not cheap.From the entry person-year
• She lives downstream from the dam.From the entry downstream
• The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.From the entry spillover
• The fetus was dicephalic with bicardia and dam recovered without any post-partum complication.2019, Dutt R., “Dystocia Due to Dicephalic Fetus in a Cross Bred Jersey Cow”, in International Journal of Agriculture Sciences, volume 11…. From the entry bicardia
• Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward."2016 October 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 10, 2016. From the entry pop
• At least 10 dams have been built on two of them, the Mekong and the Yangtze.2016 June 18, Edward Wong, “China’s Last Wild River Carries Conflicting Environmental Hopes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Salween
• So let’s talk about infrastructure tonight, and let’s begin with dams, because dams are amazing.2015 Mar, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner…. From the entry porta-potty
• Besides, these rats presented reduced embryonic death rates (resorption) compared with diabetic nonexercised dams.2015 August 9, S. B. Corvino et al., “Intrauterine Growth Restricted Rats Exercised before and during Pregnancy: Maternal and Perinatal…. From the entry nonexercised
• Many of the proposed dams would be among the tallest in the world.2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8. From the entry propose
• No antirotaviral antibody is detected at birth in caesarean-derived 18 day-old fetuses from seropositive dams.2012, Pravin Bhatt, Viral and Mycoplasmal of Laboratory Rodents. From the entry antirotaviral
• A fellow named Tajoo came out of the back dam carrying a shovel on his shoulder.2012, Hanif Gulmahamad, “Notorious Fowl Thieves of the Village”, in Guyana Memories, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry backdam
• They all then trooped up a railless stairway carved out of the outer wall of the dam.2011, Kenzaburo Oe, Somersault, Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN, page 280. From the entry railless
• Patterson was a boundary rider and lived with his wife at ‘Old Pratts’ dam hut.2010, Brian Sawers, The Sawers from Pitcairn, page 130. From the entry boundary rider
• Chinese wind engineers are calling it the “Three Gorges of the sky” after the dam.2010, Neil Morris, The Energy Mix, Mankato, MN: Smart Apple Media, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29. From the entry Dabancheng
• Here again, the NIMBYs will try to derail any new dam project.2008, David Paul Brennan, 50 Programs to Save the Economy. From the entry nimby
• The height ranges from millimeters (microgours, often on the downstream faces of larger dams) to many metres.2007, Derek Ford, Paul D. Williams, Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology, section 8.3.6 "Rimstone dams or gours", page 287. From the entry microgour
• Lying dead on the surface of the Monument dam was a moer of a big carp.2003, Justin Nurse, Chris Verrijdt, Laugh it Off Annual: South African Youth Culture, volume 1, page 71. From the entry moer
• Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step.2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547…. From the entry intermontane
• We stood on the bank of the dam surveying the squooshy wallow of mud.2000, Elizabeth Honey, William Clarke, Don't Pat the Wombat!. From the entry squooshy
• The crack extends down to the baserock and up to the dam crest.1997, Y. Ohama, Polymers in Concrete, page 187. From the entry baserock
• Croix and those portions of the Colorado which have not yet been destroyed by the dam builders.1968, Edward Abbey, “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill…. From the entry yampa
• I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you.1966, Rose Giallombardo, Society of Women: A Study of a Women’s Prison, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →OCLC, page 236. From the entry kite
• The internal overflow steel dam should be used for this purpose to allow byflow.1966, Josef D. Zimmerman, Irrigation, page 326. From the entry byflow
• Dam' fool went up to Harlem last night and bumped off three of Mr.1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 88. From the entry bump off
• Its basin appears to be largely due to a morainal dam.1915 April, Enos A. Mills, The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 157. From the entry morainal
• But to think of the Tsek’ene Dene (Tsek’ene for people) as three separate nations, before the dam came, would be wrong.2022 April 19, Zoë Yunker, “Their Land Was Drowned by a Flood of Hydropower”, in The Tyee. From the entry Tsek'ene
• This the same girl that's "wasted" of a white claw dam her voice annoying (sic). - Yeah, legiterally.2020 November 17, Jack Patrick Douglass, End my suffering (YOUR GRAMMAR SUCKS #127). From the entry legiterally

Meaning of dam

1. noun A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
2. noun The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
3. noun A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.

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Questions about dam in a sentence

How do you use dam in a sentence?

Dam is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.”

What is a short sentence with dam?

“She lives downstream from the dam.”

What does dam mean?

Dam means a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.