"high" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Also, the Nieuwe Bildtdijk eventually lost its function when an even higher and stronger dike was thrown up in the 20th century.
- The lounging guardsmen were all alert, scanning the high dike to the east through which the Banner flowed.
- During wartime the high dikes of the Yellow River were sometimes deliberately broken in order to flood advancing enemy troops.
- A new higher and stronger dike between it and the sea makes it no longer the first barrier to the sea.
- Sergeant Theodore Finkbeiner believes he was one of the first to reach the high dike roadway.
- The poorly graded road was about ten meters wide and bordered by high dikes, which allowed the coil formation to block it like a cork.
- Half went to Grand Forks, N.D., where a higher dike is to be built.
- In the final approach they saw that the brown ring was a dike, quite broad and fairly high.
- Cautiously, the four Marines crawled over a high, dirt dike below which a tall stand of cane grew green and straw brown.
- A high dike around the village and a new dam upstream have finally controlled the rush of the waters.
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