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How to use the word levees in a Sentence?

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I suspect the main response is going to be protection works rather than moving people away. So building sea walls, building levees, stop banks, putting houses up on higher piles. – James Renwick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are behind the curve on this, the Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back. – Nicholas Pinter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back. – Nicholas Pinter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They float. They tend to go wherever the water goes. We’ve recovered them from yards, from levees, from underneath stairwells, there’s no rhyme or reason, really, to where they come to rest, and then it’s kind of our logistical problem to figure out how to get them out of there. – Ryan Seidemann	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If it wouldn’t be for my levees, an afternoon shower would wash in my house, i did it with no permits, that’s why they are coming after me now. – Ken Guidry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In Louisiana, we build levees before there's a flood, so we're pretty good at preempting a problem. – Beth Mizell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Theres a lot of flooding again in some cities that had flooded before, but this time it has been more severe and faster because the levees that protect the cities had been damaged by Eta. – Mauricio Paredes	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The rising floodwaters are affecting more Missouri communities and farms, closing more roads and threatening levees, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure. – Mike Parson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They have done a lot of work on the levees and the canals, i think our odds against floods are significantly improved. – Angele Givens	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The water is up on sandbags or within six inches of overtopping levees so any commercial traffic going through that closed area could potentially cause damage to those levees. – Mike Zerbonia	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We want God to come and save us. But he won't. God doesn't stop levees from failing, he doesn't stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn't stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated. – Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I suspect the main response is going to be protection works rather than moving people away. So building sea walls, building levees, stop banks, putting houses up on higher piles.

– James Renwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are behind the curve on this, the Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back.

– Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back.

– Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They float. They tend to go wherever the water goes. We’ve recovered them from yards, from levees, from underneath stairwells, there’s no rhyme or reason, really, to where they come to rest, and then it’s kind of our logistical problem to figure out how to get them out of there.

– Ryan Seidemann

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If it wouldn’t be for my levees, an afternoon shower would wash in my house, i did it with no permits, that’s why they are coming after me now.

– Ken Guidry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In Louisiana, we build levees before there's a flood, so we're pretty good at preempting a problem.

– Beth Mizell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Theres a lot of flooding again in some cities that had flooded before, but this time it has been more severe and faster because the levees that protect the cities had been damaged by Eta.

– Mauricio Paredes

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The rising floodwaters are affecting more Missouri communities and farms, closing more roads and threatening levees, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure.

– Mike Parson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They have done a lot of work on the levees and the canals, i think our odds against floods are significantly improved.

– Angele Givens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The water is up on sandbags or within six inches of overtopping levees so any commercial traffic going through that closed area could potentially cause damage to those levees.

– Mike Zerbonia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We want God to come and save us. But he won't. God doesn't stop levees from failing, he doesn't stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn't stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

– Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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