"build" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The government decided to build levees only on the left bank of Nemunas in order to save money.
- To that end, they built artificial levees to confine the river to its main course.
- The site was later drained to enhance water control and build levees.
- After the 1965 flood, Rock Island built levees to hold the river at bay.
- An example of adaptation to climate change is building levees in response to sea level rise.
- We're going to build dams and levees and make sure it doesn't happen again.
- Slaves built levees along the Mississippi River to control flooding.
- However, private landowners along the Mississippi River built levees that were only three or four feet high.
- In history, the region was hit by floods frequently,so people built levees for the purpose of governing the flood.
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