Far in the gulches, dammed by the small thick timber, she came on patches of snow upon which the sun never shone.
His jealousy swept away the prudence that had dammed his anger.
The tampon excites uterine contractions and causes destruction of a living fetus by dissecting it loose from the uterine wall through the dammed blood.
At one time the Glacier des Bois dammed the Arve, but in time the persistent river cut through it, forming the Passage des Tines, which has a height of one hundred and seventy meters.
Now it is dammed away and the mill is built over the chasm.
For a few moments Harry stood with the paper half crushed in his hand, a flood of recollections, dammed back by hard study, now sweeping all before it, and causing him intense suffering.
As a final measure they dammedup the springs and drained the lake.
When they returned they could not find it readily, so they dammed the springs and drained the lake.
They set to work and dammed up the stream, and gradually all this flat became a lake.
There is a little stream runs close to the vein, and if it were dammedup it would drive a couple of stamps, which, with a concentrator and tables and blankets, would be quite enough for such stuff as that.
The stamps were erected, with the water-wheel to work them; the stream dammed a hundred yards up, and a leat constructed to bring the water down to the wheel.
Strawberry Lake is dammed by landslides which probably came from the west wall of the valley after the glacier melted and left the valley wall over-steepened.
Little Strawberry Lake is dammed by a low glacial moraine.
De place whar us dammed up de crick for our swimmin' hole was a right smart piece off from de big house.
Dey dammed up de crick on Sadday so as it would be deep enough on Sunday, and dey done de baptizin' 'fore dey preached de three o'clock sermon.
Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake.
The spontaneous workings of the heart are not to be dammed back by ceremonial laws.
Jesus Christ never dammed back tears when tears were wholesome, and would bring blessing.
The river which devastates a nation, dammed up within banks, may fertilise half a continent.
Just here the stream, dammed of many beaver, widens its timbered bottoms, while its high banks and the rough country beyond are studded with dwarf pines and gullied here and there with canyon-like dry creeks.
The stream was dammed so often that Igmu did not have to jump it.
The stream is dammed above the cataract, so that in times of drouth the water may be retained and the falls thus be exhibited at intervals by turning on the water, as is the case with various cataracts in Switzerland.
The water here is also dammed to make a better exhibition.
It stretched quite across the valley, and at one time dammed the river up.
The lake thus dammed in, with its surface at the level of the highest parallel road, would act, as in Glen Gluoy, upon the friable drift overspreading the mountains, and would form the highest road or terrace of Glen Roy.
As in the case of the barrier at Pontresina, the Kirchet, after the retreat of the Aar glacier, dammed the waters flowing from it, thus forming a lake, on the bed of which now stands the village of Imhof.
Adhering to the facts now presented to us, it is not difficult to restore in idea the process by which the glaciers of Lochaber were produced and the glens dammed by ice.
These lakes were sometimes dammed by barriers of rock, sometimes by the moraines of ancient glaciers.
But the great collecting ground of the glaciers which dammed the glens and produced the parallel roads, were the mountains south and west of Glen Spean.
In the bottom of the gulch, beneath the bonfire, flowed a small stream; just above the bonfire this stream had been temporarily dammed by fire wreckage.
Along its lower course, the lateral moraine on the south side dammed up a number of small water channels that drained the northern slope of Battle Mountain.
If then the same process continued, and the outer fold was still further raised, or a new one formed, more quickly than the rivers could cut it back, they would be dammed up, and lakes would result.
Colonel Hampton, of Cashier’s valley, has a well stocked trout pond formed by the dammed up waters of Cashier creek.
A river, dammed with brown boulders, flows by the roadside.
Society, dammed up for a time by the Spartan rigour of Robespierre, was now flowing back into its wonted channels.
Many of them they had so completely dammed up as to inundate the low grounds, making shallow pools or lakes, and extensive quagmires; by which the route of the travellers was often impeded.
About two and a half miles below this the river expands into a wide basin, seemingly dammed up by a perpendicular ridge of black rock.
And as our beginning has been tardy, so will our progress be rapid, even as waters long dammed up rush out to devour the plains, etc.
All day Monday the warmth increased; and the farmers coming into town reported great ponds of water dammed up in the swales and hollows against the enormous snow-drifts.
Streams which have frolicked and sung in undisturbed limpidity thousands of years, are dammed up, and made to wash and scour, and generate steam.
These silent forces in conjunction with brawling mountain torrents have been large factors in the production of the natural phenomena which are to be found in the valley dammed by the limestone "dyke" in which the caves are formed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dammed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
